Time for std.reflection

[Dmitry Olshansky]

On 23-Jul-12 10:47, Philippe Sigaud wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Dmitry Olshansky <dmitry.olsh at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 23-Jul-12 10:30, Philippe Sigaud wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Well you're the resident crazy-stuff-during-compilation guy.
>>>
>>>
>>> Ah! I wish.
>>>
>>> I had this wonderful idea of having code be parsed at CT, semantically
>>> analyzed, transformed into some machine code at CT and... , oh wait.
>>
>>
>> I kind of did it...
>> regex pattern  ---parse---> bytecode ---generate D code---> profit.
>>
>> BTW you can avoid machine code, just use D code as glorified backend :)
>> (and get optimizations for free, yay!)
>
> Hey, that was a joke, about implementing a D compiler in D, to be
> executed at CT by the real D compiler to basically do its job a second
> time, only worse :)

Yeah, now I think I got it. Could be a nice benchmark for CTFE though :)

> But yes, your regex work is a great example. I should have a look at
> the code once more.
>

I'd advice to wait a bit ... it's not really in a good shape (to read 
it) as there have been tons of improvements in CTFE since the last time 
I've touched it. I'll have to revisit it and remove some roundabout 
workarounds.

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Dmitry Olshansky