DIP81: Writing files at compile time

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On Wednesday, 12 August 2015 at 18:57:05 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> I've been looking at a company's build system recently and it 
> makes me think this is a bad idea: we have enough problems 
> tracking import dependencies and changes as it is without other 
> files being written in the middle of the process too.

Yes, you cannot use the file system for this. You could make it 
work by having a central write-once key-value database, then 
block all imports from non-existing keys until they become 
available. And error out if either keys never materialize or if a 
key is written twice.