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

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 03/10/2010 01:05 PM, bearophile wrote:
> 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.

Staged compilation is an active research topic and many approaches could 
be better than what we have now. I was merely enumerating D features 
that are not present in mainstream languages.

Andrei