No advice, just a big question: why M4?
I've made great use of M4 myself for gluing a constant- and macro-defining capability
to languages that don't have such (even Foxpro--no, no, please don't ask!) but in this
day and age perl would be far more expressive and capable for the things you are
I'm trying to create a table that has three fields as primary key. These
fields must exist in two other tables. id_aluno is primary key in table
pessoa, id_curso and id_polo are primary key in table curso_polo. But it
seems it won't work. What am I doing wrong? See definitions below.
Speci
Has anyone used the macro processor m4 to generate PostgreSQL (or any other
sql) code automatically from a data dictionary? We have made a good start
on this, but would like to avoid reinventing any wheels, or wasting time
down blind alleys.
To illustrate the benefits of this approach, consider t
