D for the JVM

[Russel Winder]

On Fri, 2013-03-22 at 08:36 +0100, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2013-03-21 23:20, Kagamin wrote:
> 
> > Interesting, can java into CTFE and compile-time code generation?
> 
> Scala supports AST macros and therefore also executing functions during 
> compile time. I guess they just invoke a new instance of the compiler 
> during compile time.

Groovy also supports AST tranformations. Two of which are:

	@TypeChecked
	@CompileStatic

so as to make Groovy a dynamic language which can have static type
checked bits and full static compiled bits. I am not sure that Cédric
has realized CTFE, I will ask.

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Russel.
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