[Issue 1301] CTFE fails for ImportExpressions

[Max Samukha]

On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 13:00:44 -0500, Chris Nicholson-Sauls
<ibisbasenji at gmail.com> wrote:

>One thing I think should work is hiding the import() in a template, and 
>sending that value off to the CTF.
>
>template T_Import (char[] file) {
>   const T_Import = import(file);
>}
>
>template T_Foo (char[] file) {
>   const T_Foo = `foo("`~T_Import!(file)~`")` ;
>}
>
>char[] foo (char[] data) {
>   // ...
>}
>
>void main (char[][] args) {
>   mixin(T_Foo!("template"));
>}
>
>I've used something similar to preload image and font data in an SDL 
>based program.  It does work -- and the extra T_Import template 
>maintains one copy of a given file being embedded.  (Otherwise fonts at 
>least would sometimes result in two or three copies.  Bad bad disc 
>usage, that.)
>
>-- Chris Nicholson-Sauls

Thanks for the idea.