foreach in compile time function?

[Sean Kelly]

Johan Granberg wrote:
> Is this code supposed to work?
> 
> char[] test(char[] d)
> {
>         char[] v="";
>         foreach(dchar c;d)
>                 v~=c;
>         return v;
> }
> void main()
> {
>         const a=test("test");
>         printf("%*.s",a);
> }

This is because you want foreach to implicitly convert your char array 
to dchars, and this happens in the compier runtime at, well, run-time. 
I imagine it would be possible to create compile-time routines to do 
this, but that feature isn't built into the compiler right now.


Sean