D Developers Conference

[BCS]

Georg Wrede wrote:
> BCS wrote:
> 
>> Brad Roberts wrote:
>>>   Benjamin Shropshire    Template Meta-Program Parser Generator
>>
>> I have expanded my topic a bit to include the techniques used in the 
>> parser generate and some other meta-programming stuff I've done. I 
>> guess that make the topic more like:
>>
>>  "Meta-programming techniques in D: how to not code something ten times"
> 
> 
> Sorry, but this sounds like what any first-year student would present 
> after the class "Intro to C++ STL".
> 
> I'd like the phrase "Template Meta-Program Parser Generator" to be 
> included in the heading. IMHO, it's way more selling. And interesting.
> 
> Maybe "Template Meta-Program Parser Generator, notes and observations by 
> the developer", or some such? Or insights, experiences, etc.
> 
> The casual observer would get the impression that such a (cool) thing 
> doable in D in the first place, and one would presume the speaker would 
> tell about the hard things and what was easy. Which ought to interest 
> almost anybody.

Good point. I guess I need to work on the title some.

However as I work on the presentation (and on some of the stuff feeding 
it) I am finding that the parser generator isn't really the main topic. 
The topic is the techniques D allows for compile time abstraction. I 
might be able to fold some of the other stuff back into the parser and 
make it a central example.

Hmm. I'll have to think about this.