[ ArgumentList ] vs. @( ArgumentList )

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2012-11-08 04:34, Marco Leise wrote:

> Which features are that? It would likely require a major
> rewrite of many routines. Who would want to go through all
> that and the following wave of bugs - some of which may have
> already occurred in the past.
>
> foreach and scope(...) lowerings are essentially AST
> operations. Are there other D features you would implement as
> AST processing, maybe a link to an earlier post ?

"synchronized" is another that I think would be easy to do with AST 
macros. Perhaps "with". It's probably not worth replacing existing 
language features with macros just for the sake of it. But for future 
features AST macros could perhaps be used instead.

> How close is Rust currently to offering flexible AST
> manipulation for lowerings/attributes/macros, does anyone
> know ?

I have no idea. I haven't looked at Rust in this area.

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/Jacob Carlborg