• Blake Anderton (16/16) Jan 30 2012 So from what I've found searching the newsgroup and my own
• bearophile (5/6) Jan 30 2012 There is an open pull request about it. And I think we'll have it in D.

"Blake Anderton" <rbanderton gmail.com> writes:

So from what I've found searching the newsgroup and my own 
experimentation, the best way to accomplish compile time printing 
is to do something like this:

string ctMain()
{
    //evaluate and return the final result string
}

enum result = ctMain();
pragma(msg, result);

I'm not a fan of having to build a single string and print it all 
at once. I know it's not that bad but it just means I have to 
pass around an Appender!string to all my logic functions that 
print results instead of having a central function they can call. 
I know a ctwriteln never really caught on, and pragma(msg, ...) 
has some limitations in that it can't use "local" variables even 
in CTFE. Are there any alternatives I'm overlooking?

bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> writes:

Blake Anderton:

 I know a ctwriteln never really caught on,

There is an open pull request about it. And I think we'll have it in D.
A problem is, that "ctwriteln" too adds a newline... :-(

Bye,
bearophile