How can I dump an expression into log and execute it

[Dicebot via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 13 July 2014 at 10:19:26 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2014-07-12 01:02, Dicebot wrote:
>
>> Whatever is ideal solution, we better focus on something 
>> practical that
>> can be realistically added to the language within current 
>> priorities
>> (stability, minimizing addition of new features, clearing 
>> corner cases
>> etc.)
>
> Funny thing you should mention "minimizing addition of new 
> features". That's exactly what AST macros are for. Just the 
> recent addition of supporting C++ namespaces could have easily 
> been implemented with AST macros.

Yes I know and likely would have preferred that approach if we 
were speaking about designing brand new language. But right now 
we already have string mixins and those won't ever be deprecated 
-> any new code generation feature should be built on top of 
either those or template mixins.