mixin functions

[Gor Gyolchanyan]

I find myself doing this very very often and it pains me to write ugly code
like this over and over again:

mixin(()=>{

    string result;
    foreach(i; 0..10)
        result ~= "writeln(" ~ to!string(i); ~ ");\n"'
    return result;

}());

All it does is generates a string in a delegate, which is immediately
called and passed to a mixin.
Almost all mixins contain generated strings and most if them need a
dedicated string generator.
I don't want to propose new syntax, because we all know that new syntax is
the last thing that will be developed, considering the number of bugs out
there. The first thing I wanted to do was this:

mixin
{
    foreach(i; 0..10)
        mixin ~= "writeln(" ~ to!string(i); ~ ");\n"'
}

I'm not suggesting this to be implemented, this is just what I
automatically wanted to write.
Anybody else had this kind of thoughts?

-- 
Bye,
Gor Gyolchanyan.
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