The Thermopylae excerpt of TDPL available online

[Leandro Lucarella]

Don, el  2 de noviembre a las 11:14 me escribiste:
> Jason House wrote:
> >Don Wrote:
> >
> >>Leandro Lucarella wrote:
> >>>Justin Johansson, el 30 de octubre a las 08:42 me escribiste:
> >>>>>Actually, I think I like that better than 'traits'.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>-Lars
> >>>>I'm in agreement with whoever suggested 'meta' or just about anything else except  'traits'.
> >>>>'meta', whilst perhaps an overloaded keyword, is still much more user-friendly.  Whenever
> >>>>I see 'traits' I get the feeling I need a Ph.D. to understand what it's about.  For some reason,
> >>>>I don't know why, 'meta' has an aire of karma about it.
> >>>"compiler"? That could open the door to other types of access to compiler
> >>>internals, AST, etc.
> >>Yup. I think the 'magic namespace' approach is a simple, clean
> >>way to incorporate reflection. It could be like Object and
> >>TypeInfo, implicitly available in every module and tightly
> >>coupled to the compiler, but can be viewed by the user as if it
> >>were just a module. It'd be particularly interesting if some of
> >>the functions _were_  actually implemented in library code, when
> >>possible.
> >
> >What about going one step further? You could require an import statement to use traits. For example, import traits=std.traits could reproduce your earlier suggestion, but gives added flexibility to the programmer. It also eliminates a keyword.
> 
> It's too fundamental for that. You can't use template constraints
> without it.
> BTW, 'scope' is another possible magic namespace.
> 
> scope.compiles(XXX) -- true if XXX compiles in the current scope.
> 
> More generally, scope.YYY()  would provide metaprogramming
> information about the property YYY of the current scope.

And what about scope(exit) and friends?

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Leandro Lucarella (AKA luca)                     http://llucax.com.ar/
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