Short list with things to finish for D2

[Denis Koroskin]

On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:42:53 +0300, Don <nospam at nospam.com> wrote:

> Don wrote:
>> aarti_pl wrote:
>>> Don pisze:
>>>>
>>>>> Additionally in my framework you can pass around parts of SQL e.g. :
>>>>> WhereExpression exp = Where(More(visitcards.id, 100));
>>>>>
>>>>> You basically *CAN NOT* do it when just using strings.
>>>>
>>>> Of course you can define a where clause using strings.
>
> Even today, it's easy to take a CTFE/string mixin front-end and create a  
> wrapper over your framework! So it's trivially easy to prove it can be  
> done. You can literally do anything. Functionality is not the problem --  
> the challenge is to make it nice. The CTFE/mixin combo is not nice, but  
> it definitely has the power.
>
> I'm thinking something like:
>
> auto result = SQL{ SELECT * FROM :localvar WHERE name LIKE 'abc*' AND  
> price > 300 ORDER BY date DESC }
>
> where SQL is a DSL macro, and the {} are delimiters indicating that it's  
> a DSL, not normal D code. That's a syntax which is currently available.

Interesting! Then q{ Foo } syntax would be just a simple macro that  
returns a string, not a built-in language construct.