Compile time filesystem access?

[Vladimir Panteleev]

On Monday, 30 January 2012 at 13:23:19 UTC, Manu wrote:
> Is D capable of accessing the filesystem at compile time, for 
> instance, to
> load and parse an XML DOM, or some other structural metadata, 
> which may be
> used to generate the associative struct and its members?
> I can think of many other uses for the technology too. It seems 
> extremely
> powerful, and I'm sure it's been discussed :)

That's what the import("filename") expression is for:
http://dlang.org/expression.html#ImportExpression

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