Creation of a Build tool on top of the D compiler

[Sean Kelly]

Andrey Khropov wrote:
> kris wrote:
> 
>> Especially when you
>> can't successfully utilize certain types of D code from a library -- such as
>> templates.
> 
> I strongly believe that compiler *should* be able to compile templates to a
> some intermediate form and put it into libraries. Otherwise you will be forced
> to create d 'header' files for your template-enabled libraries or even use them
> as source code only.

C++ tried this with "export" and it's been a bit of a fiasco.  Last I 
heard, EDG had it implemented (they were the only compiler team to have 
done so), and the benefit didn't seem all that great.


Sean