Article on programming language adoption (x-post from /r/programming)

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Thu Aug 1 10:37:50 PDT 2013


On 8/1/2013 9:53 AM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> Y'know, one feature I've always wanted is the equivalent of preprocessed
> C code -- with all mixins expanded, aliases substituted with their final
> target, templates fully expanded, all syntactic sugar lowered, with the
> original code lines in comments, so that you can see exactly how your
> code was translated, and whether it matches what you *think* it does.
> This would also be invaluable for debugging, as then it will map to the
> assembly code much better, which will help you trace where things went
> wrong.

I do this with a debug build of the compiler. Using --b will give you the 
expression trees sent to the back end.



More information about the Digitalmars-d mailing list