Writing/Creating files at compile-time

[Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d]

On 10/08/2015 10:31 p.m., Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
> 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.

Meh, thats a problem with the implementation. Not so much with the 
feature set or rather the desired feature set.