The CAPI Manifesto

[Walter Bright]

On 10/22/2011 6:12 PM, Fawzi Mohamed wrote:
>> Another way is to replace the preprocessor with CTFE and string mixins. I
>> think that could be automated quite easily. (modulo the possibility of some
>> extremely heavy abuse on the C side that could make the other parts of the
>> translation a lot harder of course)
>
> I think string mixings are an extremely ugly solution to this problem, and I
> would try to avoid that, especially if they are used to represent a function
> that should be inlined, and might be replaced by a normal function in a later
> version.

Sure, but I've seen some pretty ugly use of preprocessor macros to paste 
together statements that need to be inserted. String mixins are the only hope.