__FILE__ and __LINE__ in case of import expression
Andrey Zherikov
andrey.zherikov at gmail.com
Fri Aug 21 20:44:06 UTC 2020
On Friday, 21 August 2020 at 15:27:14 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Friday, 21 August 2020 at 14:01:24 UTC, Andrey Zherikov
> wrote:
>> mixin(import("foo.d")); // line #17 (2)
>
> Why are you doing this? This kind of thing is almost never an
> ideal solution in D.
>
> See, the compiler just sees a big string literal there. It
> isn't a separate file at that point, the import expression just
> pastes in the file contents as a string, and then mixin makes a
> chunk of code from it.
>
> These two features are not really meant to be used together, at
> least not without some custom translation code in the middle.
Currently this is for illustration only but why can't I do this?
This can be an alternative to `rdmd --eval` that takes code from
a file, not as CLI parameter.
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