Inlining of immediately called function literals

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 7/27/14, 1:35 AM, Daniel Murphy wrote:
> "Marc Schütz" " wrote in message
> news:gefktpkzfnlryljvwmqa at forum.dlang.org...
>
>> 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.

Ionno. There are a few high-level constructs in D that are amenable to 
front-end inlining - doing so in the backend entails quite a bit of 
assembling the cow back from the burger. -- Andrei