That was my issue, the need to implement things. Along my HTML code, I also have to implement or include libraries for common functionality.
define(loop, ‘ifelse($2,0,, ‘define(‘$1’,$2)$3‘’loop(‘$1’,decr($2),‘$3’)’)’) <!doctype html> <html lang=en> ... loop(‘i’,10,‘Counter is i’) vs <!doctype html> <html lang=en> ... # i = 1 while ... #! Also, I think most loops would be on files. On Wednesday, December 11, 2019, Marc Chantreux <e...@phear.org> wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 01:39:38PM +0200, Adrian Grigore wrote: > > Regarding m4(1) I remember I wasn't a big fan of the dnl macro, no > > loops and also other goodies sh(1) has to offer. > > this paper is worth reading: > > http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~kjt/research/pdf/expl-m4.pdf > > it demonstrate how to: > > * implement loops > * use divert to avoid lot of dnl usages > > regards > marc >
