Compile time executable calling?

[Tofu Ninja]

On Wednesday, 8 January 2014 at 18:50:04 UTC, Orvid King wrote:
> On Wednesday, 8 January 2014 at 18:46:37 UTC, Tofu Ninja wrote:
>> I made a post about it a few months back and it seemed like 
>> there were some people who would want this, but nothing ever 
>> came of it.
>>
>> The idea is basically being able to call and capture the 
>> output of a program at compile time, similar to a string 
>> import.
>>
>> Has anyone thought about this since?
>>
>> I know I for one would still love this.
>>
>> -Tofu
>
> My argument against this is simple, and can be summed up in one 
> sentence: "Why yes, you tried to build my code, so I deleted 
> all of your source code."

I think something like this would have a compile flag to enable 
it for security. I don't think I would be too worried about it.