Compile time metaprogramming

[David Nadlinger]

On 12/3/11 1:43 AM, simendsjo wrote:
> On 02.12.2011 23:28, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
>> There's also been at least a couple of cases where people
>> have worked on unit libraries and discussed them in the main
>> newsgroup, but so
>> far, nothing has gotten to the point where it's been reviewed for
>> introduction
>> to Phobos, and I don't know if any of those projects is still alive.
>> It would
>> definitely be an asset though.
>
> I seem to remember someone wanting to work on a library for GSoC and
> that he would work on it even if it wasn't accepted. I might remember
> wrong, and the person might have left the project.

That was Cristi Cobzarenco, but he then proposed a different project, 
linear algebra stuff [1], which he ended up working on because I already 
had a more or less working implementation of an units library lying 
around: [2].

I posted my project to the NG, and there seemed to actually be two or 
three people interested in it, but I didn't submit it to formal review 
yet, because it sometimes breaks in interesting ways due to compiler 
bugs (issue 3467 [3] and the likes), and I had enough work to do for my 
own GSoC project anyway.

David


[1] 
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2011/cristicbz/36001
[2] http://klickverbot.at/code/units/
[3] http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3467