[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> Nathan Meyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> > Bernd Kreimeier wrote:
> > >
> > > Does anybody know of a (preferably Java-written - has to
> > > work for Win32 too) tool that implements a template-like
> > > text replacement for Java? Like the "genclass" script did
> > > in the very early days of gcc-based C++?
> > >
>
> Sounds like you could do this with just some creative usage of
> cpp. E.g. name your template file <..>.javax (with #define and/or
> include) and then run cpp to produce a <..>.java source file.
Java parametric polymorphism is a pretty tall order for cpp to try to
handle, but I'm willing to be convinced.
This topic is quickly drifting off-topic. Bernd, if you could convince
your ISP to stop bouncing mail from my ISP, perhaps we could continue
the conversation without boring all of these bystanders.
Nathan Meyers
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