Compile time executable calling?

[Peter Alexander]

On Friday, 12 July 2013 at 20:42:50 UTC, Tofu Ninja wrote:
> So I had an idea recently, wouldn't it be cool to have the 
> ability to call an executable at compile time and capture its 
> output.

How long until D compilers are able to read mail? :-)

There's many obvious applications of this proposed feature, but I 
say such things should be delegated to the build process. Just 
run those executables using a makefile, or whatever build system 
you use.

If you need compile time inputs from your D code then just run a 
separate build to extract them. Yes it's more work and less 
convenient, but I think we need to be careful with how much is 
added to the D compilers. We don't want to turn them into 
operating systems.