Fully dynamic d by opDotExp overloading

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Hello Yigal,

> On 18/04/2009 21:16, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> 
>> In the syntax
>> 
>> a.b
>> 
>> how would either of a and b be identified at runtime? I mean, you
>> write the code somewhere and it gets compiled. It's not like you're
>> reading "a.b" from the console and then call some eval() function
>> against them.
>> 
>> Andrei
>> 
> what prevents D from having an eval function?
> suppose someone modifies the DMD front-end to compile a string with
> the
> source code of a function in-memory, than this is processed by
> something
> based on DDL and what you get is an API call that takes source code in
> a
> string and returns a function pointer.

Even then it is *still* going to be compile time. Just a compile time running 
at runtime... Ooohh, my heads's going to start hearing here in a bit.