Template-based Preprocessing

[Walter Bright]

Don Clugston wrote:
> I've previously suggested the 'identifier' keyword for string pasting.
> Stringizing is already possible, you can find the code for 
> symbolnameof!() in dsource/ddl/meta, together with qualifiednameof!() 
> which is significantly more powerful than anything in C++.
> With identifier, you'd write:
> 
> string identifier("serialize_" ~ symbolnameof!(I))() {
>   return toString(I);
> }

Not a bad idea, but it would require a lot of internal rewriting of the 
compiler to implement.