compile-time explicitness

[Timon Gehr]

On 09/23/2011 08:47 PM, Gor F. Gyolchanyan wrote:
> Of course, if the entire D gets CTFE-able, the __ctfe will be completely useless.
> But i can't see that coming for a long time. Most of the major programming
> problems are best solved with classes and that's where CTFE stops.
>
> About templates:
>
> void unpackIntoFunction(alias arrayOfVariants, alias func)()
> {
>     // you can't generate the necessary mixin strings right here, because it won't
> be compile-time.
>     // you need to create a separate function, that returns the required string to
> be mixed in.
>     mixin(whatIJustGenerated);
> }


mixin({
     string r;
     foreach(i; 0..10) r~=q{writeln("hello world!");};
     return r;
}());