Etienne, The example is quite interesting. But the idea of selling comment space for advertising really rocks! :-)
With best regards, Alexei Fedotov, Intel Java & XML Engineering >-----Original Message----- >From: Etienne Gagnon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 2:25 AM >To: harmony-dev@incubator.apache.org >Subject: Re: [classlib] Preprocessor - CHECKPOINT > >Tim Ellison wrote: >> IMO it's not ideal that the preprocessed source still contains all the >> streams, albeit in comments. It wouldn't make the source very >> 'consumable' to the Mrs. SE or ME developer. > >Hmmm... It's always possible to have a special output mode that puts >empty (or advertizing, hehe) comments, instead of other stream code >(thus, preserving line numbers). > >To continue on my earlier example: > >Java source => "j2se end-developer" >----------------------------------- > > >... > >// Download Harmony[tm] from >// >// http://the.nice.harmony.url/download >// >// :-) > > @Processor(Not in j2me!) > int some_field = > some + > initializing() > code; > >... > > >Or, more likely: > >Java source => "j2se end-developer" >----------------------------------- > > >... > >// Please ignore this comment. It has been >// intentionally left here to preserve line numbers >// for bug reporting purpose. >// >// Please report bugs to http://bugs.of.harmony.url/... > > @Processor(Not in j2me!) > int some_field = > some + > initializing() > code; > >... > > >So, J2ME & J2SE end-developers are kept happy. > >As a bonu$, you can al$o $tart a nice busine$$ $elling advertizing $pace >in $ource code. ;-P > >Etienne > >-- >Etienne M. Gagnon, Ph.D. http://www.info2.uqam.ca/~egagnon/ >SableVM: http://www.sablevm.org/ >SableCC: http://www.sablecc.org/
