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Pretty much all languages with turing-complete compile-time expressions only expose a subset. This comfortably lands in the "not in that subset" category.

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> [...] and Lisp do-- allowing full use of the programming language at compile time.

If you only expose a subset, you very specifically don't have the full use of the programming language.

Now you're just being pedantic. Also, leaving out the "D" just before your quote is plain disingenuous. That contextualizes the discussion and clearly establishes we don't mean being able to directly run ASM operations and syscalls willy-nilly at compile time.

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