suggestion: relaxing reqirements for version and mixin

[Artyom Shalkhakov]

Stewart Gordon Wrote:

> Thomas Kuehne wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> > In my view it would be realy nice to allow the following code:
> > 
> > template Foo(){
> >     return:
> > 	}
> > 
> > void doFoo(){
> >     mixin Foo;
> > }
> > 
> > Ok, that's a trival excample but should give you the idea.
> > 
> > The content of the version expression should only be interpreted
> > after validating the scope of "version". e.g.
> > 
> > if( version(STRICT){a<200 || } a>0){
> >     // blabla
> > }
> 
> Both those features smack of textual processing to me.
> 
> "Modern languages should not be text processing, they should be symbolic 
> processing."
> 
> And a potential parsing nightmare.
> 
> Stewart.
> 
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Thanks for the tips. I'm off to read the articles you mentioned.