• Matt (4/4) Aug 09 2012 Is it possible to retrieve the file path to a module from within
• Tobias Pankrath (2/6) Aug 10 2012 I don't know of any possibility. What do you want to achieve?
• Matt (7/7) Aug 10 2012 I'd like to try to track the source files, to watch for editing.
• Jacob Carlborg (6/13) Aug 10 2012 Tomasz Stachowiak did that way back in the D1 days. He used a modified
• Matt (3/20) Aug 10 2012 Cool, that seems to be a good example. I'll have a look and see

"Matt" <webwraith fastmail.fm> writes:

Is it possible to retrieve the file path to a module from within 
the module itself? Or, if not, are there any methods to retrieve 
the import location list (the argument -I that is passed to the 
compiler) from within code?

"Tobias Pankrath" <tobias pankrath.net> writes:

On Friday, 10 August 2012 at 02:20:18 UTC, Matt wrote:
 Is it possible to retrieve the file path to a module from 
 within the module itself? Or, if not, are there any methods to 
 retrieve the import location list (the argument -I that is 
 passed to the compiler) from within code?

I don't know of any possibility. What do you want to achieve?

"Matt" <webwraith fastmail.fm> writes:

I'd like to try to track the source files, to watch for editing. 
The goal is for Run-time compiling, akin to runtime compiled C++, 
which allows the programmer to edit their modules, save them, 
then the program notices the change of file and recompiles, all 
while the program is still running. The final goal would be to 
allow the programmer to edit code, and see the changes in 
realtime, without having to stop the program and restart.

Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:

On 2012-08-10 14:06, Matt wrote:
 I'd like to try to track the source files, to watch for editing. The
 goal is for Run-time compiling, akin to runtime compiled C++, which
 allows the programmer to edit their modules, save them, then the program
 notices the change of file and recompiles, all while the program is
 still running. The final goal would be to allow the programmer to edit
 code, and see the changes in realtime, without having to stop the
 program and restart.

Tomasz Stachowiak did that way back in the D1 days. He used a modified 
version of the DDL linker. It might be this code:

https://bitbucket.org/h3r3tic/boxen/src/76f3fab1b889/src/ddl/ddl

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

"Matt" <webwraith fastmail.fm> writes:

On Friday, 10 August 2012 at 13:44:13 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
 On 2012-08-10 14:06, Matt wrote:
 I'd like to try to track the source files, to watch for 
 editing. The
 goal is for Run-time compiling, akin to runtime compiled C++, 
 which
 allows the programmer to edit their modules, save them, then 
 the program
 notices the change of file and recompiles, all while the 
 program is
 still running. The final goal would be to allow the programmer 
 to edit
 code, and see the changes in realtime, without having to stop 
 the
 program and restart.

 Tomasz Stachowiak did that way back in the D1 days. He used a 
 modified version of the DDL linker. It might be this code:

 https://bitbucket.org/h3r3tic/boxen/src/76f3fab1b889/src/ddl/ddl

Cool, that seems to be a good example. I'll have a look and see 
what I can do with it.