Compile time function execution...

[Walter Bright]

Sean Kelly wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>> This should obsolete using templates to compute values at compile time.
>>
>> For contrast, compare with the C++ proposal:
>> http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2006/n1972.pdf
> 
> Huh, and Bjarne co-authored that proposal.  I wonder what the reason is 
> for all the restrictions.

I'm guessing, but I suppose they wished to be as conservative as 
possible in order to avoid the unimplementable debacle exported 
templates were.