Compile time executable calling?

[Walter Bright]

On 7/12/2013 3:12 PM, Timothee Cour wrote:
> I think the OP was refering to something different:
> ability to call an arbitrary executable / shell command during compile time of a
> D function, whereas optabgen is during compiling dmd itself:

It's still the same idea - using external programs to generate source code.


> what we want to have is this:

I do understand that. I'm just saying that this can currently (but awkwardly) be 
done in the makefile.