D's treatment of values versus side-effect free nullary functions

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On 23/07/2010 21:54, Don wrote:
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> I completely agree that there will always be opportunities for CTFE
> which will be missed unless you allow the compile time to become
> arbitrarily long.

Which is why ultimately it should be up to the programmer to decide.
There should be a way to force the compiler to try CTFE, unless it can 
absolutely prove the function is not CTFE.

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