Removing D embedded in HTML feature

[Lionello Lunesu]

Janice Caron wrote:
> On 31/03/2008, Lionello Lunesu <lionello at lunesu.remove.com> wrote:
>> Believe it or not, I have plans for using it.
>>
>>  I've changed TiddlyWiki into an IDE for D (unofficially called TiddlyDee).
>>  TiddlyWiki is basically a single HTML with huge amount of javascript for a
>>  self-contained wiki.
>>
>>  I've changed it so you can tag wiki entries with the tag "D" which enables D
>>  syntax coloring and allows the HTML to be compilable as-is. A button in the
>>  same HTML compiles and runs the project, passing the HTML filename to DMD.
>>
>>  It's not really a serious project, but it sure is nice to have a
>>  cross-platform IDE like that!
> 
> OK. But it wouldn't be /that/ hard to write a program which took an
> HTML source file containing D as its input, and generated plain D
> source as its output. With that, you'd only need a small change to
> your build process and your project will still compile.
> 
> The question isn't "Should such a convertion tool exist?" (Of course
> it should, coz ... why not?). The question is, "Should the requirement
> be part of the D specification?" - a requirement which (if I have
> understood this correctly) requires all D compilers to implement the
> feature. I think that the answer to the first question is "yes", but
> the answer to the second question is "no"

You're right, of course.
I do wonder, however, what the point of that feature was in the first 
place....

L.