New syntax for string mixins

[Don]

Graham St Jack wrote:
> On 14/12/10 20:33, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>> On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 09:30:46 +0200, Graham St Jack
>> <Graham.StJack at internode.on.net> wrote:
>>
>>> There is of course the worry that it could get so easy that everyone
>>> starts doing it, and we have (relatively) impenetrable code everywhere
>>> instead of just deep in the bowels of framework libraries.
>>
>> TBH, I'm more excited by AST macros which I understood are planned for
>> D3, as mentioned here:
>> http://s3.amazonaws.com/dconf2007/WalterAndrei.pdf
>> They seem to promise the power of mixins, but without the mess.
>>
> 
> I took a look at the pdf, but couldn't see how the AST macros could come
> close to the kinds of things that are possible (but difficult) with 
> mixins. 

That fact was recognized at the conference, on the following day. As a 
result, AST macros were dropped from D2.

They need to roughly match string mixins in power.  At this stage, there 
is no proposal for how they should work.