program for building the program

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Gzp" <galap at freemail.hu> wrote in message 
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> So to designing template(generic) code, a simplified language should be 
> created that generates the actual source. So the border b/n the two 
> language can be made more explicit and fewer questions arose.
>

The problem with that, aside from the increase in the grammar's complexity, 
is that anytime you want to be able to do something at both runtime and 
compile-time, you'd have to write two separate implementations of the same 
thing, which carries with it all the problems assisiated with breaking DRY. 
Plus then that would create a need to write meta-meta-functions that 
generate both the runtime and compile-time versions of the same function. 
CTFE (and better yet, Nemerle's way, at least from what I've seen of it), is 
just a better approach.

> The compiler also should provide readably output of the generated code.

I'm not sure if this is what you mean, but I definitely want a compiler 
switch that outputs the resulting D code after all the mixins and such are 
applied.