Does D have too many features?

Jacob Carlborg doob at me.com
Sun Apr 29 07:53:19 PDT 2012


On 2012-04-28 22:43, Timon Gehr wrote:
> On 04/28/2012 09:58 PM, foobar wrote:
>> It should be replaced by a standard compilation
>> API and the compiler should be able to use plugins/addons.
>
> Are you serious?

Have a look at what Scala have done. They basically have the complete 
compiler available as a library. Then they used this library to 
implement runtime reflection and macros. Macros in Scala are functions 
that execute at compile time.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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