On Tue, 11 Oct 2011, ben wrote:

> hi
> 
> I've tried to figure out why there is a strong and unexceptional scope of
> coccinelle on semantic patching. Why not metaprogramming, or macro
> preprocessor on steroids? I would be very interested in this, but couldn't
> find anything in the docs. And maybe I'm completely on the wrong trail here,
> because one problem I see is extending the syntax would mean to
> (mis)reinterpret C's syntax since coccinelle 'just' understand C.
> But as little stupid regex hacker I'm impressed by the possibility to leave
> the rather line oriented approach and going deep into a construct and
> programmatically rearrange evey token I want. And so I'm a little obsessed by
> the idea that coccinelle can make data out of c code and give me a powerfull
> macro system.

Perhaps you could explain a little more concretely what you would like to 
do?

julia
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