CTFE vs. traditional metaprogramming

[language_fan]

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 10:26:11 +0200, Don thusly wrote:

> CTFE doesn't mean "string mixins using CTFE". It just means CTFE. (BTW
> you can do string mixins with templates only, no CTFE, if you are
> completely insane).

CTFE without mixins is rather limited form of metaprogramming. You can 
basically only initialize some static non-code data, and not much more. 
String mixins with templates was the only way to go before CTFE became 
possible -- those were the times!