mixin D code into D code

[Bill Baxter]

Daniel919 wrote:
> Hi, why not use D instead of perl ?
> Since "sh style script syntax" is supported, I would like the following to be possible:
> 
> import std.stdio, std.string, std.metastrings;
> 
> void foo(A...)(A a)
> {
>     writefln(format(typeid(typeof(a[1]))) ~ " " ~ a[0] ~ " = \"" ~ a[1] ~ "\"");
> }
> 
> void main (char[][] args)
> {
>     debug(templates)
>         foo("var", "whatever");
> 
>     foo!("var", "whatever");
>     /* This will call dmd -run on this file. But instead of starting at main(),
>      * it starts by invoking foo() with the tuple ("var", "whatever").
>      * Mixed into the context will be the console output of the
>      * dmd -run call, in this case:
>      * char[8] var = "whatever";
>     */
> 
>     writefln(var);
> }
> 
> Wouldn't this be very neat and powerful ?
> 
> Walter, about your concerns on malware autors:
> Of course script interpretation within the compile-process could be used for malware. But also the malware could be put into the compiled code itself and get's started if the app is run. So I think it doesn't make any difference.
> 
> Best regards,
> Daniel

Also, people download and run makefiles to build their software all the 
time. Who knows what that makefile is doing.  There could be an rm -rf / 
buried in there somewhere in all that tab-sensitive gobbledy-gook.

--bb