On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Phil Taylor wrote:
> That's a bit Linux-centric, Guido. Remember that in a GUI program,
> the text editor, preprocessor and abc parser are all part of the
> same program, and you can't just use an existing external preprocessor.
sure! But you can mimick this arrangement decently well. For example, in
my JedABC the user may be tempted to ignore that the editor is using
external programs. Everything appears as if it were part of the editor; I
was actually inspired by your BarFly when I started designing JedABC.
I may also write a GUI, multiplatform version of abcpp using the FLTK
toolkit. This would benefit all users, not only those who use JedABC or
command line programs.
> In any case, if properly written, abc containing macros will still work
> whether or not the macros are expanded, so they can be treated as an
> optional extra.
I'd say I agree with you.
later,
Guido =8-)
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