string encryption

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On Friday, 1 July 2016 at 22:23:23 UTC, Hiemlick Hiemlicker wrote:
> It seems D won't replace
>
> encrypt("This string will still end up in the binary");
>
> with "skadf2903jskdlfaos;e;fo;aisjdfja;soejfjjfjfjfjfjfeij" or 
> whatever the ctfe value of encrypt actually is.
>
> This also seems like a bug in D because manifest constants used 
> as sole arguments to ctfe'able functions should be replaced by 
> the function result.


CTFE is explicit. You could make it `encrypt!"encrypted at 
compile-time"`. Then let encrypt return some struct, which 
decrypts at runtime.