DeRailed DSL (was Re: compile-time regex redux)

[Walter Bright]

janderson wrote:
> Bill Baxter wrote:
> [snip]
>> I'm hopeful anyway.  But to me it seems like what D's souped-up 
>> templates have proved so far is that while features like static-if 
>> take you a long way -- maybe so far as "making the simple stuff 
>> simple" -- anything beyond that still turns into spaghetti.
>>
>> It's a step in the right direction, though.  In C++ even the simple 
>> stuff gives you spaghetti.
> 
> Very true.

I was surprised at what a big step static if's were.