Re: Re: Re: A Macro System for Perl?

Agreed, but what about the README? It would seem that there is an inference of compatiblity with C macros, and a familiarity with them on the users part. Then again, it's not as if I wrote it ;-) And of course, there's always the source.

-- perl -pew "s/\b;([mnst])/'$1/g"

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Re: Re: Re: Re: A Macro System for Perl? by samtregar (Abbot) on May 08, 2002 at 03:37 UTC
The README is three lines long (aside from build instructions) and doesn't mention C macros at all. It comes with no examples and no tests. It is, for all intents and purpose aside from the author's own use, worthless. -sam	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: A Macro System for Perl? by belg4mit (Prior) on May 08, 2002 at 03:41 UTC
Calling something worthless because you are unwilling/unable to take a peak under the hood to accomdate the author's laziness/lack of foresight is tantamount to calling a box of toothpicks without directions useless. `-- perl -pew "s/\b;([mnst])/'$1/g"`	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: A Macro System for Perl? by educated_foo (Vicar) on May 08, 2002 at 04:24 UTC
`s/box of toothpicks/box of gears and springs/`. Sure, there's a fully-functional clock in there somewhere, but I'm not going to find it. Seriously, though, glancing at the source for a couple of seconds makes me think it will behave like CPP for simple things, with '#' replaced by '#%'. My favorite thing, though, was the TODO file, which I quote in its entirety: * #if	[reply] [d/l]
Re7: A Macro System for Perl? by belg4mit (Prior) on May 08, 2002 at 04:36 UTC


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