Thesis on metaprogramming in D

[Leandro Lucarella]

Hello. My name is Leandro Lucarella, I'm finishing my grade on Computer 
Engineering in the UBA (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina) and I'm 
planning to do my thesis on meta-programming and I'd like to do it using 
D (because is the language that is closer to my ideal language, if it 
just had Python-like syntax... ;).

The center of my thesis would be adding meta-classes[1] to D, and maybe 
some other meta-programming features D could lack of (maybe some kind of 
access to the AST like XLR[2]).

I'd like to know if you think this is:
1) Doable.
2) Useful.
3) A feature that can be included in the official D specification.

In case it's not clear, I'd like to add support for meta-classes to the 
D language itself, not provide some nasty library to ease the job using 
the existing tools. If there is any D guru that is willing to help me 
out and give me some guidance, that would be great too.

TIA

[1] Like Python meta-classes but, of course, resolved at compile time.
     http://www.python.org/doc/essays/metaclasses/
[2] Extensible Language and Runtime
     http://xlr.sourceforge.net/

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Leandro Lucarella
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