Google Summer of Code 2013(?)

[alex]

On Sunday, 24 March 2013 at 20:22:56 UTC, Adam Wilson wrote:
> I just want to throw some caution into the wind here. Many 
> people have tried emitting CIL from D source, and have had 
> varying levels of success. Ranges in particular seems to a pain 
> point as the CIL has no way to express that concept natively. I 
> am not saying this isn't a good idea, as it's the only 
> realistic way to do CTFE in the .NET world, just something to 
> be careful when approaching.

Ranges.. in .Net there's something beautiful called List, which 
imho could somehow be used for wrapping e.g. array slices. I 
mean, even if it's a workaround it's still considering the 
functionality

> That said, I come from the C#/.NET world and would love to help 
> make this happen.

Yeah, would love that, too. But then there's also a question of 
effort vs. gain - is another "compiler" really needed? Is it 
worth the 2 years of CTFE implementation brainfuck? Hmm.