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

[Jim Balter]

"div0" <div0 at users.sourceforge.net> wrote in message 
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> On 23/07/2010 21:54, Don wrote:
>>
>> 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.

That's what command line optimzation options are for.


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