Motivation for compile time function execution

[Walter Bright]

Pragma wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> To someone who is comfortable with Lisp, I agree that 1, 2, and 3 are 
>> moot. But most of us aren't, and a very common request I'd get is to 
>> make metaprogramming look "like normal D code." The eventual 
>> metaprogramming goal is to get the power of Lisp expressible in the 
>> "normal D" syntax.
> 
> Actually, FWIW, I'm not comfortable with Lisp.  D template coding is 
> just "noisy" enough for me to grok as a list processing grammar. In 
> contrast, my comprehension of Lisp breaks down after about three or four 
> nestings.  Yea, I'm probably a huge weirdo in that respect. ;p
> 
> But I'm all for the changes and improvements.  Your rationale for adding 
> to things is dead on.

You'll have to thank Andrei and Bartosz for that; they kept hating my 
proposals for new syntax to support metaprogramming <g>. They kept 
sending me back until I understood the obvious.