Challenge: write a template-instance free dispatcher for text printing

[Basile B.]

On Wednesday, 27 May 2026 at 18:13:40 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Thu, May 28, 2026 at 04:44:56AM +1200, Richard (Rikki) 
> Andrew Cattermole via Digitalmars-d wrote:
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> Makes me really wish for Stefan's' CTFE engine + CT type 
> manipulation support.
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> Although D templates are extremely powerful and awesome for 
> metaprogramming, templates are ultimately not the right concept 
> for many CT tasks. What we *really* want is CTFE + type 
> manipulation for DbI to compute the final form of a template 
> instantiation, then a single template instantiation at the end 
> to actualize it.  The current idiom of arbitrarily-complex 
> templates nested arbitrarily deep, while powerful, leads to 
> needless template bloat.
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We just want to insert new AST nodes during compilation, we are 
just not sure how to insert them... macros ? mixins ? templates ? 
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