Can your programming language do this?

[Simen kjaeraas]

Adam D. Ruppe <destructionator at gmail.com> wrote:

> alias DataObjectFromSqlCreateTable!(import("db.sql"), "users") User;
>                                  // sql source code , table to fetch
>
> void main() {
>     auto obj = new User(null); // that null should actually be a db  
> handle if
> you want to be able to commit changes
>
>     // read/write access to the user table, with compile time
>     // type and name checks
>
>     obj.first = "Changing my name!";
>     obj.date_last_edited = getUTCtime();
>
>     obj.commitChanges(); // save your writes back to the database,
> (reasonably) efficiently
> }
>
>
>
> D can! It can dynamically make those DataObjects too, with the
> same syntax, but you lose compile time checks for obvious reasons.
>
>
> I just couldn't help but laugh a bit when I ran this thing through
> CTFE and found it actually worked, so figured I'd share a positive
> message with you guys :-)

This is awesome. I've known that D could do it, and I've occasionally
poked at it myself, but always felt it was too much work for
something that isn't all that hard to do by hand. Now, getting
someone else to do it for me...


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Simen