• Alvaro Castro-Castilla <alvcastro yahoo.es> Nov 30 2009
• Bill Baxter <wbaxter gmail.com> Nov 30 2009
• Walter Bright <newshound1 digitalmars.com> Nov 30 2009
• Don <nospam nospam.com> Dec 01 2009
• Walter Bright <newshound1 digitalmars.com> Dec 01 2009

Alvaro Castro-Castilla <alvcastro yahoo.es> writes:

Walter Bright Wrote:

 Simen kjaeraas wrote:
 I'm already in love with this feature.


 So am I. It seems to be incredibly powerful.
 
 Looks to me you can do things like:
 
 1. hook up to COM's IDispatch
 
 2. create 'classes' at runtime
 
 3. add methods to existing classes (monkey patching) that allow such 
 extensions
 
 4. provide an easy way for users to add plugins to an app
 
 5. the already mentioned "swizzler" functions that are generated at 
 runtime based on the name of the function



Yes, this feature is really really useful. I specially like how much it can
help in modularizing and your 3rd and 4th points.

I added a dmd2 svn version ebuild to Gentoo Linux's D overlay, for those of you
who want to try it before next release. 

Bill Baxter <wbaxter gmail.com> writes:

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Alvaro Castro-Castilla
<alvcastro yahoo.es> wrote:
 Walter Bright Wrote:

 Simen kjaeraas wrote:
 I'm already in love with this feature.


 So am I. It seems to be incredibly powerful.

 Looks to me you can do things like:

 ...

 5. the already mentioned "swizzler" functions that are generated at
 runtime based on the name of the function




And once again we see Clugston's Law at work.  As soon as you figure
out how to do one thing in D, a new compiler feature comes along that
makes it a one-liner.  :-)

--bb

Walter Bright <newshound1 digitalmars.com> writes:

Bill Baxter wrote:
 And once again we see Clugston's Law at work.  As soon as you figure
 out how to do one thing in D, a new compiler feature comes along that
 makes it a one-liner.  :-)


The goal is to write a D compiler in one line of code!

Don <nospam nospam.com> writes:

Bill Baxter wrote:
 On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Alvaro Castro-Castilla
 <alvcastro yahoo.es> wrote:
 Walter Bright Wrote:

 Simen kjaeraas wrote:
 I'm already in love with this feature.



 Looks to me you can do things like:

 ...

 5. the already mentioned "swizzler" functions that are generated at
 runtime based on the name of the function




 And once again we see Clugston's Law at work.  As soon as you figure
 out how to do one thing in D, a new compiler feature comes along that
 makes it a one-liner.  :-)


I love it!

Walter Bright <newshound1 digitalmars.com> writes:

Don wrote:
 Bill Baxter wrote:
 And once again we see Clugston's Law at work.  As soon as you figure
 out how to do one thing in D, a new compiler feature comes along that
 makes it a one-liner.  :-)


 I love it!


Part of that is just that Don is very good at figuring out what needs to 
be supported!