Improve D's syntax to make it more python like

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 3/22/14, 9:19 AM, MattCoder wrote:
> On Saturday, 22 March 2014 at 01:22:14 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
> wrote:
>> ...Given D's compilation speed, that can be achieved as a dialect
>> without much aggravation by using a preprocessor.
>>
>> In fact I considered writing such a preprocessor as a running example...
>
> Please someone could show a little example of the quote above? I
> mean it would act like C preprocessor or in D it has another
> meaning?

As simple as it gets. The program would translate files with extension 
".wsd" into files with extension ".d" and run dmd (or rdmd) 
transparently. Appropriate handling of file timestamps etc. would 
complete a nice utility. You'd use it like

wsd myscript.wsd

which under the hood would create (if necessary) myscript.d and then 
exec rdmd on it.


Andrei