D parsing

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2013-11-06 09:34, Chad Joan wrote:

> Also, IIRC, it is believed that string mixins with CTFE are potentially
> more powerful.  I am under the assumption that Walter is taking the long
> view and waiting for the community to furnish their own powerful AST
> manipulation tools using the existing spec.  I suspect that he is
> opposed to baking AST manipulation into the /language spec/, but is
> perfectly accepting of the notion of using AST manipulation to generate
> code, reduce boilerplate, implement exotic features and DSLs, and so
> on.  Just don't complicate the core language any more than it already
> is. Sorry if I misrepresented you Walter; I can only make educated
> guesses ;)

The problem with this is the ugly syntax, it requires a string mixin and 
the source code needs to be embedded in strings. You also need a 
complete front end that works at compile time.

This is my vision of AST macros: 
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/18386187/ast_macros.html

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/Jacob Carlborg