• J Thomas <jtd514 ameritech.net> Jul 27 2005
• "Ben Hinkle" <bhinkle mathworks.com> Jul 27 2005
• J Thomas <jtd514 ameritech.net> Jul 27 2005
• "Charles" <noone nowhere.com> Jul 27 2005
• Manfred Nowak <svv1999 hotmail.com> Jul 27 2005

hey im curious, are there any facilities in d for expanding macros 
beyond a mixin? for example what if i want to pass the source location 
into a function, for example:

in c/c++ i could write a method:

_someMethod( int line, string source );

then macro:

#define someMethod()	_someMethod( _LINE_, _FILE_ );

etc..


how would you do something like this in D ?

"J Thomas" <jtd514 ameritech.net> wrote in message 
news:dc7clf$26s3$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 hey im curious, are there any facilities in d for expanding macros beyond 
 a mixin? for example what if i want to pass the source location into a 
 function, for example:

 in c/c++ i could write a method:

 _someMethod( int line, string source );

 then macro:

 #define someMethod() _someMethod( _LINE_, _FILE_ );

 etc..


 how would you do something like this in D ?


You'd have to expand the macro by hand. In D __LINE__ and __FILE__ are 
substituted at the lexer level - so the rest of the parser never knows they 
exist. 

yah thats what i was thinking, bummer...

i love D but im still not completely sold on the no preprocessor


Ben Hinkle wrote:
 "J Thomas" <jtd514 ameritech.net> wrote in message 
 news:dc7clf$26s3$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 
hey im curious, are there any facilities in d for expanding macros beyond 
a mixin? for example what if i want to pass the source location into a 
function, for example:

in c/c++ i could write a method:

_someMethod( int line, string source );

then macro:

#define someMethod() _someMethod( _LINE_, _FILE_ );

etc..


how would you do something like this in D ?


 
 You'd have to expand the macro by hand. In D __LINE__ and __FILE__ are 
 substituted at the lexer level - so the rest of the parser never knows they 
 exist. 
 
 

You can always run it through a C++ pre-proccessor before compilation.

Charlie
"J Thomas" <jtd514 ameritech.net> wrote in message
news:dc8hvi$d5c$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 yah thats what i was thinking, bummer...

 i love D but im still not completely sold on the no preprocessor


 Ben Hinkle wrote:
 "J Thomas" <jtd514 ameritech.net> wrote in message
 news:dc7clf$26s3$1 digitaldaemon.com...

hey im curious, are there any facilities in d for expanding macros






a mixin? for example what if i want to pass the source location into a
function, for example:

in c/c++ i could write a method:

_someMethod( int line, string source );

then macro:

#define someMethod() _someMethod( _LINE_, _FILE_ );

etc..


how would you do something like this in D ?



 You'd have to expand the macro by hand. In D __LINE__ and __FILE__ are
 substituted at the lexer level - so the rest of the parser never knows




 exist.

"Charles" <noone nowhere.com> wrote:

 You can always run it through a C++ pre-proccessor before
 compilation. 



That is definitely not true, because pre-processor directives might 
be included in D-strings spanning several lines.

-manfred