Improve D's syntax to make it more python like

[Colden Cullen]

On Saturday, 22 March 2014 at 17:28:16 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 3/22/14, 9:19 AM, MattCoder wrote:
>> On Saturday, 22 March 2014 at 01:22:14 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
>> wrote:
>>> ...Given D's compilation speed, that can be achieved as a 
>>> dialect
>>> without much aggravation by using a preprocessor.
>>>
>>> In fact I considered writing such a preprocessor as a running 
>>> example...
>>
>> Please someone could show a little example of the quote above? 
>> I
>> mean it would act like C preprocessor or in D it has another
>> meaning?
>
> As simple as it gets. The program would translate files with 
> extension ".wsd" into files with extension ".d" and run dmd (or 
> rdmd) transparently. Appropriate handling of file timestamps 
> etc. would complete a nice utility. You'd use it like
>
> wsd myscript.wsd
>
> which under the hood would create (if necessary) myscript.d and 
> then exec rdmd on it.
>
>
> Andrei

After far too many hours on a plane today, I ended up building 
this[1]. This is very much a proof of concept, and not production 
ready in the slightest.

I should point out that the extensibility and maintainability of 
this is roughly equivalent to that of a potato, but it serves its 
purpose decently well.

[1] https://github.com/ColdenCullen/wsd