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Re:Ruminations on D: An Interview with Walter Bright by steveklabnik on Tuesday August 30, 2016 @12:58PM (#12391798) 

  > Compile time IO doesn't make much sense either.
While I agree with D's decision here, there are other languages which do allow anything at compile time. See Jai, for example.
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Re:Ruminations on D: An Interview with Walter Bright by wtetzner on Tuesday August 30, 2016 @03:56PM (#12393341)
And Common Lisp, and Scheme, and Elixir, and Clojure, and I'm sure I'm missing a bunch :)
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Re:Ruminations on D: An Interview with Walter Bright by lomnakkus on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @04:04PM (#12401078)
Even... Haskell! Dundundun! (I'm referring to Template Haskell.)

As it turns out (IME) referencing arbitrary data (such as a database schema queried from a 'live' database) is actually of quite limited value.

Where I actually agree that it makes sense is the 'read-a-checked-in-file-and-generate-code-at-compile-time-from-that'. Otherwise, you're mostly just looking at a lot of pain compared to just generating code (that you might check in).

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Re:Ruminations on D: An Interview with Walter Bright by p0nce on Tuesday August 30, 2016 @06:35PM (#12394508)
Those come with the whole compiler at runtime.
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