Annotation of functions

[psychoticRabbit]

On Tuesday, 20 February 2018 at 12:45:25 UTC, rikki cattermole 
wrote:
>
> string creater() pure {
> 	return "void func() {}";
> }
>
> mixin(creator());
>
> That is why. There are plenty of functions, classes and structs 
> that simply won't exist in the form of syntax until you execute 
> CTFE.

I think I'd fire anyone that wrote functions in that way ;-)

perhaps what I had in mind was a lot simpler.

fn string creater() pure {
  	return "void func() {}";
}

so now I'm just looking for lines that begin with fn. the mixin 
doesn't matter.

the only reason I thought of this annotation thing, was so I 
could grep a source code file and count how many functions it had 
in it. this seemed the easiest way ;-)

at the moment, that's just not possible - as you mentioned, you 
need a front end to process that kind of information (unless you 
have an annotation).