Compile Time Text Generation

Allow ‘macros’? to generate text at compile time.

This text can be code or data or any other text.

You could even generate binary data.

• The target would be a string or a file.
• Multiple strings or files can be generated.
• Multiple strings or files can be consumed.
• Comparison if generated (file) content has changed.
• Extend generated code with custom file content (partial).

Use a special (compile-time) syntax to output strings? (think razor engine and T4 and the like)?

See also Generator Functions.

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Embed any language inside the Z# code with some kind of marker that indicates the interpreter/compiler/source generator.

[[CSharpCodeGenerator]]
#! SomeName     // unique name passed to the generator
"""             // what code block delimiters to use?
    var i = 0;
    for (int i; i < 42; i++)
        ...
"""

Can we do this inline?