The stately := operator feature proposal

[Diggory]

On Thursday, 30 May 2013 at 02:51:47 UTC, Diggory wrote:
> On Thursday, 30 May 2013 at 01:35:58 UTC, MrzlganeE wrote:
>> Diggory:  That's very cool -- being able to do that in D. 
>> Thanks for showing me :)
>>
>> But it is not even a remotely practical solution.
>>    The idea is to write less, and so the solution you've given 
>> is to write more mixins all over the place. I said I don't 
>> even want to write 'auto', I am surely not writing the big 
>> mixin chunk.
>>
>> I only gave an example of math stuff.
>> But I'd use := for the non-math stuff too.
>>
>> I want := it to be available everywhere.
>> Even if I am just typing a snippet into dpaste.
>>
>> If D implements this, C++ will try to copy it 10 years later.
>> It's a futuristic thing -- what is old is new.
>
> The mixin definition only needs to exist once, and you can use 
> "mixin" anywhere - you could wrap an entire source file in it:
>
> mixin!q{
>
> /* All of your code */
>
> }

*mixin Math!q{ ... };