compile-time regex redux

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Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email) Wrote:
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> Au contraire, I think it's a definite step in the right direction. 
> Writing programs that write programs is a great way of doing more with 
> less effort. 

As long as it works yes, but if you need to debug the result, you're most likely going to suffer a lot..
Also this can leads to huge compile time due to code expansion (been there with generated C++ code: 6h compilation time(!) and full compilation needed each time due to the difficulty to track dependencies).

So it is a bit like TNT: a useful tool sure, but a dangerous one too.
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