mixin identifiers concept

[Paul Backus]

On Tuesday, 1 February 2022 at 01:52:25 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
>
> You have to balance that (which in the absence of benchmarks or 
> other empirical evidence is a theoretical problem) against the 
> horrendous cost in terms of complexity of the language. It's 
> not just the syntax - which would be a substantial burden for 
> new users - but also understanding the details of what it's 
> doing. It's hard to see this being worthwhile for only gains in 
> compilation time.

This is a fair criticism of the original proposal. However, 
allowing the standard string mixin syntax to be used for 
identifiers in declarations, as suggested by Nick Treleaven in 
[his reply][1], would bring the same benefits with significantly 
less complexity.

[1]: 
https://forum.dlang.org/post/aznmkielsozvfgrzehoc@forum.dlang.org