Scope of Mixins

Adam D Ruppe destructionator at gmail.com
Thu Aug 26 17:45:48 UTC 2021


On Thursday, 26 August 2021 at 17:39:16 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> String mixins are appealing because they can inject code like C 
> macros do. It's not trivially possible to do the same with 
> template mixins.

Template mixins are great, but obviously totally inappropriate 
here. I'm just talking about using a normal function, possibly 
with an alias argument, instead of any kind of mixin.

Too often D programmers reach for fancy code generation when a 
simpler function is a better fit.


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