[D-runtime] Why does druntime us .di files instead of .d?

[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Fri, 15 Jul 2011 00:40:19 +0300, Andrew Wiley  
<wiley.andrew.j at gmail.com> wrote:

> It seems to me that a way to fix all this and guarantee CTFE-ability  
> (which seems to be the end goal) would be to add some sort of modifier  
> or annotation to designate that a function is CTFE-able.

We've actually discussed this idea with Andrei on the #d IRC channel. I  
would suggest a more generic attribute like @exportsource which preserves  
the body of a function in cases where it would be stripped otherwise  
(including .di generation). It wouldn't need to be required, unless the  
user wants to use CTFE with .di files.

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  Vladimir                            mailto:vladimir at thecybershadow.net