CTFE thoughts & functional approach

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 2 February 2016 at 08:31:07 UTC, Robert M. Münch 
wrote:
> No, my point is that CTFE and meta-programming seems to be much 
> simpler and powerful if I can use a more functional programming 
> approach for it. Working with powerful lists and data = code 
> and code = data concept would simplify this.

Ultimately a restricted deductive programming language would be 
the better option. There is no need for compile time evaluation 
to be turing complete; after all, you want the compiler to finish 
within a fixed time limit.