program for building the program

[Bill Baxter]

On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Joel C. Salomon <joelcsalomon at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/1/2009 3:21 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>
>> I think the dynamic bit that D lacks and many interpreters have is
>> eval(someString).
>
> I wonder if ddmd can be shoehorned into that…

Only if you make the whole compiler part of the runtime library.
Or at least the CTFE code-interpreting subset of it, to get a limited eval().

--bb