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

[H. S. Teoh]

On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 10:37:50AM -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
> 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.

It'd be nice if this was documented somewhere. ;-)


T

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