Write/Writeln, etc

[BCS]

Reply to bearophile,

> std.metastrings.Format of D 2.029 is broken, I think.
> 
> --------------------
> 
> The following doesn't work, the pragma isn't seen as an instruction, I
> guess this is normal, but I don't like it much:
> 
> static if (true)
> pragma(msg, "true");
> else
> pragma(msg, "false");
> --------------------
> 
> D2 programs need more and more compile-time printing, and:
> pragma(msg, ToString(...) ~ ...);
> isn't much nice.
> So I think that the std.metastrings.Write and std.metastrings.Writeln
> templates may be created, able to print strings, integral values,
> floating point values, and arrays of those types.
> 
> I have started to create such templates, but to create the
> std.metastrings.Write I have seen I'd like to have a pragma(msg, ...)
> that doesn't add a newline at the end.
> 
> Has someone written a template or compile-time-function able to print
> a floating point value?
> 
> Bye,
> bearophile

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