CTFE thoughts & functional approach

[cym13 via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 1 February 2016 at 00:02:55 UTC, Era Scarecrow wrote:
> On Sunday, 31 January 2016 at 13:59:06 UTC, Robert M. Münch 
> wrote:
>> However, I'm wondering why most (everyone?) is trying to do 
>> meta-programming using the same language as the one getting 
>> compiled. IMO the use-cases a pretty different and doing CTFE, 
>> code-generation etc. needs some other approach. If you look at 
>> all the strange template syntax, strange hacks etc. it's all 
>> far from being obvious.
>
>  I have trouble coming up with a proper use-case to use Regex 
> during CTFE; I mean, sure you can do a replacement expansion 
> and encode a few bits to expand for a switch statement or 
> something, but at the same time you can already do that.

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