Compile time filesystem access?

[Manu]

On 30 January 2012 15:30, Vladimir Panteleev <vladimir at thecybershadow.net>wrote:

> On Monday, 30 January 2012 at 13:23:19 UTC, Manu wrote:
>
>> Is D capable of accessing the filesystem at compile time, for instance, to
>> load and parse an XML DOM, or some other structural metadata, which may be
>> used to generate the associative struct and its members?
>> I can think of many other uses for the technology too. It seems extremely
>> powerful, and I'm sure it's been discussed :)
>>
>
> That's what the import("filename") expression is for:
> http://dlang.org/expression.**html#ImportExpression<http://dlang.org/expression.html#ImportExpression>
>
> You'll need to approve paths for inclusion with the -J switch.
>

Magic! :)
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