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Re:Ownership and Borrowing in D by coder543 on Tuesday July 16, 2019 @03:02AM (#20448048)
> Things like mixing in a data file is incredibly useful and not something I would want to use a rebuild step for at all.

It’s not directly part of the const function, but rust has compiler built-ins to import files as values as compile time, which makes it easy to declare global static variables that contain that data.

This is different from being able to walk a directory and read random files.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/macro.include_str.html

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/macro.include_bytes.html

> They share the same frontend so there is very little difference.

That’s excellent.

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Re:Ownership and Borrowing in D by EvenThisAcronym on Tuesday July 16, 2019 @03:50PM (#20453277)
> This is different from being able to walk a directory and read random files.

D doesn't allow you to do that either. You have to specify what files you are importing via a compiler switch: https://dlang.org/spec/expression.html#import_expressions

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Re:Ownership and Borrowing in D by WalterBright on Tuesday July 16, 2019 @04:31PM (#20453591)
Yes. That's another barrier I put in to prevent a carefully crafted source code from being a malware vector.
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