I hate new DUB config format

Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri Nov 27 01:26:56 PST 2015


On Friday, 27 November 2015 at 07:08:40 UTC, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
> Actually, no! Conditionals and loops are the only constructs - 
> switch is a possibility, but basically nothing else. There will 
> also never be variables, just constants. There is a definitive 
> limit, namely when it becomes impossible to reason about the 
> code in a generic way, without "executing" it, so in particular 
> anything that would make it touring complete is a no-go - no 
> recursion, no loop flow control statements, no goto. In fact, 
> there are no "statements" at all, these are all purely 
> declarative "directives".

Sounds like you should consider using a datalog engine. Good 
inference power and performance, but not turing complete.

Ola.


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