if I wanted to use that script to generate xctests, how do I feed it a custom gyb file in? Is there a help file somewhere I can read? I know this is not meant for that but it would be useful.
On Tuesday, December 8, 2015, Brent Royal-Gordon <br...@architechies.com> wrote: > > I'm reading the stdlib source code and I see .gyb files. What are those > files for? > > gyb stands for Generate Your Boilerplate. It’s a preprocessor the Swift > team wrote so that when they needed to build, say, ten nearly-identical > variants of Int, they wouldn’t have to literally copy and paste the same > code ten times. If you open one of those files, you’ll see that they’re > mainly Swift code, but with some lines of code intermixed that are written > in Python. The actual preprocessor itself is in the Swift source repository > at utils/gyb, though most of the code is in utils/gyb.py. > > -- > Brent Royal-Gordon > Architechies > >
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