Feedback Wanted on Homegrown @nogc WriteLn Alternative

monarch_dodra via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Oct 3 10:23:30 PDT 2014


On Friday, 3 October 2014 at 17:01:46 UTC, H. S. Teoh via 
Digitalmars-d wrote:
> For a compile-string that's statically fixed (i.e.,
> writefln!"..."(...)), we can do a lot more than what ctFmt 
> does. For
> example, we can parse the format at compile-time to extract 
> individual
> formatting specifiers and intervening string fragments, and 
> thereby
> transform the entire writefln call into a series of puts() and
> formattedWrite() calls.

The take home point is that ctFmt would *also* parse the string 
at compile time. The difference is that it creates a run-time 
object, which still contains enough static information for a 
powerful write, yet still some run-time info to be able to swap 
them at runtime.


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