On Tuesday, 29 May 2012 at 16:32:17 UTC, Gor Gyolchanyan wrote:

On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Tobias Pankrath <tobias@pankrath.net>wrote:

Going this path means that you have to turn the compiler into a full build
system. That finds the right tools in the path, gives good error messages
if they are absent, that caches results etc.

... which is precisely what we need to reduce all problems related to the
build process to zero. This would solve a heap of problems.

If we do that, we should carefully design the system. If we introduce the possiblity to execute arbitrary commands at compile time, we've just introduced
the next generation preprocessor.