newCTFE is getting ported to 2.092

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On 6/5/20 5:46 PM, Stefan Koch wrote:
> On Friday, 5 June 2020 at 21:09:37 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 08:24:10PM +0000, Stefan Koch via 
>> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>>> newCTFE port to 2.092
>>
>> How close are we to newCTFE being mergeable?  Been slobbering over it 
>> since it was first announced way back when, can't wait for it to 
>> arrive already!
>>
> Trust me once it's merged you'll be disappointed because the problem 
> were templates all along (hence my work on type functions)

But without newCTFE the cure is worse than the disease.

I think it's going to allow more possibilities of replacing templates 
with CTFE handling.

I have some ideas to do type functions without specialized compiler 
support. But I think it would be painful without a better CTFE engine.

-Steve