Proposal: __traits(getComment, symbol)

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2019-08-29 13:24, Petar Kirov [ZombineDev] wrote:

> BTW, the argument "<..> is a job for the compiler as a library" is what 
> languages like Go use as an excuse for why they don't have neither 
> templates, nor even generics. And if you want type-safety, you would use 
> build-time (not compile-time) code-generation tools like this:
> 
> https://godoc.org/github.com/searKing/golang/tools/cmd/go-syncmap
> https://godoc.org/github.com/searKing/golang/tools/cmd/go-syncpool
> https://github.com/ChimeraCoder/gojson
> 
> In D such tools are completely replaces by templates (modulo compilation 
> time trade off). If you have experience with languages that have some 
> sort of AST macros, you start to think of languages that don't, just as 
> we think of languages without templates or generics, like Go.
> 
> See also 
> https://web.archive.org/web/20190622093122/http://wiki.c2.com/?BlubParadox 
> ;)

True, although I think there are use cases for both AST 
macros/`__traits(getAST)` and using the compiler as a library.

Something like inspecting the AST of all source files of a project and 
do something seems a bit difficult to do with AST macros/`__traits(getAST)`.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg