Writing/Creating files at compile-time

[Dmitry Olshansky via Digitalmars-d]

On 10-Aug-2015 13:22, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
> On 10/08/2015 9:48 p.m., ketmar wrote:
>> On Mon, 10 Aug 2015 16:08:43 +1200, Rikki Cattermole wrote:
>>
>>> I think you mean dlopen, dlsym and dlclose. Not full file system access
>>> geez.
>>
>> and root privs requirement. just to complement it all.
>>
>>
>>> We are already getting so close to have a full blown CTFE implementation
>>> that it isn't funny.
>>
>> i'm starting to think that CTFE was a big mistake. while it's ok in
>> languages like Forth and Scheme, it seems to suits c-like languages bad.
>> people feels something wrong with it, but can't exactly see what is
>> wrong. and the only way to fix it is to drop it.
>
> Nah, I like CTFE a lot.
> It's just that.. ugh we can have a full implementation that isn't the
> issue. It's just that we won't be committing to it. So we should
> understand and not try to expand upon it.
>

Rather the only problem with CTFE is that it should to be within factor 
of x10 slower then real-time version not x1000 times slower.

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Dmitry Olshansky