Property rewriting; I feel it's important. Is there still time?

[bearophile]

Andrei Alexandrescu:
> integration of interpretation with compilation,

Isn't it better to use the compiler to run the functions at compile time, in a staged compilation? This removes the development & maintenance burden of the interpreter, that must be kept in sync with the semantics of the main compiler. A possible downside is that the compiler needs to be called many times, and this can slow down the main compilation.

Bye,
bearophile