DIP 50 - AST macros

deadalnix deadalnix at gmail.com
Mon Nov 11 10:47:11 PST 2013


On Monday, 11 November 2013 at 13:26:37 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> On Sunday, 10 November 2013 at 21:20:34 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
> wrote:
>> I've been thinking quite long of how AST macros could look 
>> like in D. I've been posting my vision of AST macros here in 
>> the newsgroup a couple of times already. I've now been asked 
>> to create a DIP out of it, so here it is:
>>
>> http://wiki.dlang.org/DIP50
>
> I don't have time to investigate this in details but I'd like 
> to mention that this is one of few possible new features where 
> ROI is really worth it. It removes lot of burden from core 
> language and allows to replace some very arcane template hacks 
> with cleaner code. I'd say it is a bit too early to go for it 
> (really, we need at least to figure out how to make releases 
> without issues first :)) but it is a good future goal even in 
> context of general feature freezing.

Can you stop reading my mind, please ?


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