__Symbol an alternative to recursive templates for type-introsecption

[Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d]

On 2016-10-09 15:52, Stefan Koch wrote:

> Walter would rather die. Then see ast-macros in D.

Yeah, unfortunately. Instead a lot of features are proposed and some 
implement that all could be implement using macros. At the same time 
complaining that macros are complex. That's making the language complex 
is implementing a lot of small features that could have been implemented 
with a generic solution instead.

> I must say they would probably be worse then templates, in regards of
> compile-time bloating.

It's difficult to say without implementing and testing it out.

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/Jacob Carlborg