On Sunday, 25 June 2017 at 22:53:07 UTC, Johan Engelen wrote:
I meant semantically no call.
In the existing language, I think version (or static if) at the
usage and definition points both is as good as you're going to
get.
unless you use a preprocessor lol
But the good news about version is you could use compiler errors
about missing name to know where it needs to be (unless there's
another matching overload in scope[!]). So it would be mildly
verbose to look at in the code, but not really difficult to get
right (and you could write it with autocomplete, like vim's
`:abbr foo version(foo) foo`).
I am now thinking about introducing a noop intrinsic...
That'd be kinda tricky because the arguments would still be
liable to be evaluated... so the intrinsic would need to cover
and disable that too and I think you'd be in for a fight to get
that approved.
