What would a minimal subset of D look like?

[Yatheendra]

On Saturday, 22 June 2019 at 10:50:35 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
>
> Yes, static interfaces can be done by duck-typing and 
> conventions.  Although it is difficult to ensure type safety 
> with duck-typing alone (but one can improve on that with an 
> enum that says something about capabilities and test those with 
> a static assert).

This sounds like the Erlang recommendation (they call it tagged 
tuples, records).

>
> Hmm, yes, that wasn't very clean... I guess this is a good 
> argument for providing AST manipulation features ("AST macros").

Nim has AST macros.

> ...