The X Macro using D

[Nicholas Wilson via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 21 July 2017 at 19:26:05 UTC, Johan Engelen wrote:
> On Thursday, 20 July 2017 at 21:17:45 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> Some time ago, I wrote about the X Macro in C:
>>
>>   https://digitalmars.com/articles/b51.html
>>
>> I used it from time to time in C code. It's one of the things 
>> I actually like about the C preprocessor. But in translating 
>> the aged C code to D it was time to make X work in D. Here's 
>> the C code, followed by the D translation.
>
> This mechanism is used in LLVM in a number of places, where the 
> list entries are used e.g. to populate tables and to define 
> aggregate member fields.
> For example:
> https://github.com/llvm-mirror/compiler-rt/blob/master/lib/profile/InstrProfData.inc#L29-L51

And those in turn are generated from TableGen.