obj file for mixin?

[kenny]

Are there any examples of this anywhere? This sounds very very 
interesting to me. Actually so interesting that, you may have just 
changed the way I was going to implement something ;)

Does that mean that I can essentially use D as a scripting language?

*Can't contain excitement!*

Daniel Keep wrote:
> Tim Keating wrote:
>> This may seem like a dumb question but . . . a source file that is 
>> imported solely for a template that gets used as a mixin will not be 
>> compiled into an obj file, correct? The more I think about this, the 
>> more it seems like the logical behavior, but MAN did it freak me out 
>> when I noticed its absence from my build directory. ("How in the hell 
>> did I link that code in there?!?")
>>
>> TK
> 
> Actually, some people have used this very behaviour to do some very cool 
> (and kinda scary) shell scripting with D.
> 
> The idea is that you write your scripting libraries as template mixins, 
> then use "dmd -run" to run your .d file as a script.  If you're on a 
> *NIX, you can even then use a hashbang.  D's also fast enough that 
> compiling the script every time isn't a big deal.
> 
> You certainly wouldn't want to try it with C :3
> 
>     -- Daniel