Short list with things to finish for D2

[Don]

Denis Koroskin wrote:
> 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.
Yup.
I'm just brainstorming, though.