DIP81: Writing files at compile time

[Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d]

On 2015-08-13 01:27, Tofu Ninja wrote:

> A simple alternative to this would be a flag to the compiler to expand
> mixins and output the new files. This would also be great for tooling,
> an IDE could use this and allow you to expand a mixin in place to see
> what it looks like. And currently all the auto complete engines I have
> seen for D don't handle mixins very well. Expanding them would make
> autocompletion a simpler job.

I agree, this is much better. I remember the old Eclipse plugin, 
Descent. It had a compile time view which showed how mixins where 
expanded and how some language features where lowered, i.e. "scope" to 
try-catch-finally.

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/Jacob Carlborg