Is the world coming to an end?

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On 04/03/2011 07:57 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Michel Fortin"<michel.fortin at michelf.com>  wrote in message
> news:ina7e9$2kdh$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> On 2011-04-03 12:04:42 -0400, Adam D. Ruppe<destructionator at gmail.com>
>> said:
>>
>>> btw, it might be worth considering a change to overflow. Suppose
>>> there was a way to get arbitrary size ints passed to a template.
>>> Then, the library could do its own overflow checks, or not, enabling
>>> things like bigint literals in this same fashion.
>>>
>>> Though, I don't think it's a big benefit. It'd be really weird
>>> to use (a new compile time only datatype?)
>>
>> I've been thinking about the same thing, except instead of having a
>> special data type the template would simply take a string:
>>
>> template binary(string digits) {
>> ...
>> }
>>
>> binary!1111_1111_0000_0000;
>> // no error, number "1111_1111_0000_0000" passed as a string to the
>> template.
>>
>
> I've always thought that we should be able to do something like this:
>
> template foo(int val)
> {
>      enum foo = val.meta.argString;
> }
> static assert(foo!(2+3) == "2+3");

That's Lisp (or Io): non-evaluated arguments (messages). Next century in 
compiled languages ;-)

Denis
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