format()

[Jonathan M Davis]

On 2011-06-12 10:30, David Nadlinger wrote:
> On 6/12/11 6:37 PM, Lloyd Dupont wrote:
> > mm... ok.
> > but why the line below doesn't compile?
> > 
> > mixin(format("class %s {}", "A"));
> 
> Because format presumably can't be interpreted at compile time (yet) –
> not all functions are necessarily CTFEable.

Yeah. format can only be used at runtime. If you want a version which works at 
compile time, then you std.metastrings.Format, which is an eponymous template. 
e.g.

mixin(Format!("class %s {}", "A"));

should work. Of course, in this particular case, you might as well just give 
the whole string to the mixin directly, but I assume that the example is so 
simple simply because it's an example.

- Jonathan M Davis