Imperative Templates

[monkyyy]

On Friday, 10 May 2024 at 13:29:24 UTC, Atila Neves wrote:
> On Wednesday, 8 May 2024 at 14:56:37 UTC, monkyyy wrote:
>> Allow saner escape hatches for state-ful templates, instead of 
>> compiler ~~bugs~~ fun unintended features with generally 
>> horrible proforence, syntax and limitations
>>
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>> `__COUNTER__` a special token that increases by 1 each time its
>
> This is a recipe for bugs wrt differences between compiling 
> separately or not.

I kinda expect allot of criticism of "you shouldn't even want 
this" but my response will be "its already possible, people just 
cant read it"

I believe my `mixin("__LINE__")` method to make a counter will 
also break with separate compilation so _such things are already 
in the compiler_. If this is the main criticism you have, maybe 
it would be possible to add a field to .o files that sets the 
starting point of counter, so if the counter for foo.o ended at 3 
and you compile `dmd bar.d foo.o` `bar.__COUNTER__` is 4.