Scripting in D on Windows
hasen
hasan.aljudy at gmail.com
Sun Mar 1 13:45:40 PST 2009
Sergey Gromov wrote:
> It is possible to make .d files automatically executable on Windows.
>
> For that you need:
> 1) modify the PATHEXT environment variable. It's a semicolon-separated
> list of executable extensions, so you just add ";.D" at the end
> 2) create a file association for .D and make the default action for it
> of the form:
>
> dmd -run "%1" %*
>
> Now if you have foo.d in your path, you just type 'foo' in command line
> and it runs.
>
> OK, so far so good. But the drawback of this is that every single .d
> file becomes executable which is absolutely not what I want. I want
> only selected, specially designed D programs to be executed when I
> mention their name. This would be possible if I used a different file
> extension for D scripts, .ds for instance. Unfortunately DMD chokes on
> files with unknown extensions, making this impossible.
>
> What do you think? Would you use D for scripting? Is it worth a
> feature request for DMD to support additional--or arbitrary--extensions
> for files executed with -run?
I like the idea!
I think for general purpose scripting I'd rather use python, BUT the
importance of this idea is that it abstracts away all the compilation
stages!
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