It seems pure ain't so pure after all

[Graham Fawcett]

On Monday, 1 October 2012 at 20:41:53 UTC, Tommi wrote:
> On Monday, 1 October 2012 at 20:33:29 UTC, Graham Fawcett wrote:
>> string exclaim(string v)() {
>>  return v ~ "!";
>> }
>>
>> void main() {
>>  writeln(exclaim!("howdy"));
>> }
>
> It doesn't scale well to have to write both compile-time and 
> run-time versions of your functions.

And how is your proposed @force_ctfe attribute going to solve 
this issue? If you're forcing CTFE, by definition you don't have 
runtime support.

As you clearly know, D already supports functions that can run at 
compile-time and run-time: that's the whole point of of CTFE.

Graham