Meta-programming - examples

[janderson]

janderson wrote:
> 
> Personally I see this new mixin format as giving us the power to extend 
> D in whatever way meets our goals.  As Walter adds more features some of 
> them will be rarely used (law of demising returns) because they are 
> special case.  Mixin Expressions circumvent this because now the 
> programmer has the power to create the language features they need.
> 
> The only downside I see is compile-time, which I hope can be solved with 
> a smart caching system.


I would also like to add:  Mixin Expressions allow us to experiment with 
new features for the D language.

Over the course of time we may discover some privative building blocks 
that are very useful.  Hopefully they would eventually make themselves 
into the core of the language.

-Joel