DMD 1.005 release

[janderson]

Andreas Kochenburger wrote:
> BLS wrote:
>> I guess here is a need for further explaination.
>>
>> Either I am an complete idiot (not completely unrealistic) and 
>> missunderstood something, or a new, quit radical, programming 
>> paradigmn change is on it s way.  I mean it is difficult to realize 
>> the implications.
>> Bjoern
> 
> I am not a D programmer (yet) only observing what is happening.
> 
> I compare the new "code generation at compile-time" stuff in D with 
> Forth. Forth also has a built-in interpreter & compiler which extends 
> the language and can also execute macros at compile-time through 
> EVALUATE. Of course Forth is much more low-level than D. But IMO the new 
> mixins are not a "radical programming paradigm change".
> 
> Perhaps I just did misunderstand something?
> 
> Andreas

I'm not familiar with forth.  Can you provide some examples?  Does it 
allow partial macro definitions.  Can you apply string operations on 
them at compile time?

-Joel