Idea for a new tool

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On Friday, 14 October 2016 at 13:13:16 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5051 -- Andrei

Reminds me of Lisp, where they also have code generation wrapped 
in code generation wrapped in ... here is an example: 
http://stackoverflow.com/q/16579844/2361979

Lispers have a REPL and can expand interactively and 
specifically, though.

I guess the most awesome D use case would be inside an IDE. Click 
on a template/mixin call to expand exactly that one. An IDE would 
have access to all build and link parameters, which naturally 
influence this.

For example, click on "foo.find(bar)" and it opens a new 
buffer/tab/window, where the correct variant of find is 
instantiated according to foo and bar.

Click on "mixin Foo;" and it inlines the instantiated code.