Idea for a new tool

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On 10/14/2016 06:01 PM, Chris Wright wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Oct 2016 09:13:16 -0400, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> 
>> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5051 -- Andrei
> 
> For the love of potatoes, please take a few seconds to tell us the gist 
> of it here.
> 
> The requested tool is a preprocessor, of sorts: evaluate version 
> statements and mixins and expand templates. That lets you see what's 
> going on in your code a bit better in the case of extensive 
> metaprogramming.

This wouldn't be a pre-processor in C/C++ sense because it requires full
semantic analysis to work. More like a special mode of compilation.

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