another idea for compile time functions

[Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email)]

Reiner Pope wrote:
> Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email) wrote:
>> The question is, what is the subset of D that can be interpreted? I'm 
>> thinking:
>>
>> * Basic data types (they will be stored as a dynamically-typed variant 
>> anyway), except pointers to functions and delegates.
> What's wrong with function pointers and delegates? For starters, you 
> need to support them for user-written foreach's, and (as long as they 
> are written in an alias-free form) they are const-foldable.
> 
>> I'm constructing this list thinking what it takes to write basic data 
>> manipulation functions. What did I forget?
> What about structs? They are a plain old data type, and they don't have 
> virtual functions. Is there something tricky with them that I'm missing?

I guess I'm just trying to simplify Walter's life :o).

Andrei