Inlining of immediately called function literals

[Daniel Murphy via Digitalmars-d]

"Marc Schütz" " wrote in message 
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> IIRC the core reason is that expression nodes in the AST cannot contain 
> statements. Isn't it possible to create a "bridge" node type that is 
> allowed to appear in expressions, but may also contain statements?

Sure, but that would be horrible (from an implementation point of view). 
The better way is to use an ir/backend inliner, ie use gdc or ldc.