Re: Program lifecycle

[Chaim Frenkel]

>>>>> "NT" == Nathan Torkington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

NT>  - source filters munge the pure source code
NT>  - cpp-like macros would work with token streams
NT>  - pretty printers need unmunged tokens in an unoptimized tree, which
NT>    may well be unfeasible

I was thinking of macros as being passed some arguments but then can
either manipulate the raw source code or ask the lexer/parser for
parsed tokens.

<chaim>
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