On Tuesday, 17 June 2014 at 03:08:48 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
Assuming you are talking about C macros:
I was talking about macros in general. :-)
expert on the C preprocessor." Why would a freakin' macro
processor even have an ecological niche for a world leading
expert on it? The mind boggles.
You could say the same about Turing-machines, Lisp, template
programming and propositional calculus? The world of computers is
mind boggling!
6. Any syntax highlighter cannot work entirely correctly
without having a full preprocessor.
This is the point I was aiming at. Automatic translation becomes
more difficult if you cannot deal with "meaningful units" on the
parsing level.
Take for instance gofix/dfix. How on earth are you going to
detect a deprecated feature in a string mixing and replace it
with a new construct? It might be possible in some cases, but you
actually have to explore all versioning-possibilities, meaning do
an exhaustive search.
That sounds veeery challenging!
8. There are no looping macros, no CAR/CDR capabilities (Ddoc
has the latter).
So there!
So it only goes to 8? Then CPP can't be all that loud.
