CTFE Overhaul (Was: RFC: Thrift project proposal (draft))

[dsimcha]

On 3/26/2011 12:16 PM, Don wrote:
> I'm giving CTFE a *major* overhaul right now. I don't know if I'll be
> finished in time for the next compiler release, but definitely by the
> release after that. Most importantly, bug 1330, which is the root cause
> of almost all of the problems, will be fixed. I hope to move CTFE out
> the "experimental feature" category.

This is great news, I'm looking forward to it.  Thanks for the hard 
work.  Out of curiosity, can you give a brief overview of what new 
things CTFE will be usable for?