Idea for a new tool

Nordlöw via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Oct 14 08:13:12 PDT 2016


On Friday, 14 October 2016 at 13:53:15 UTC, qznc wrote:
> I guess the most awesome D use case would be inside an IDE. 
> Click on a template/mixin call to expand exactly that one. An 
> IDE would have access to all build and link parameters, which 
> naturally influence this.
>
> For example, click on "foo.find(bar)" and it opens a new 
> buffer/tab/window, where the correct variant of find is 
> instantiated according to foo and bar.
>
> Click on "mixin Foo;" and it inlines the instantiated code.

I agree, I've been dreaming about this for a long time aswell.


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