>>>>> "John" == <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
John> I have recently been introduced to the wonders of TT and would like to migrate a
substantial amount of existing CPP (C pre-processor) code to it. It would appear that
I have four choices:
John> 1) Find an existing translator which will take CPP and spit out TT.
John> 2) Find an existing TT plug which causes TT to accept CPP syntax (i.e. emulate
CPP).
John> 3) Code up either 1) or 2) myself.
John> 4) Change lots of files by hand.
John> Clearly, 1) and 2) would be favourite :-)
You might look at Text::CPP and either build a plugin around it,
or look at how it is doing things.
As for translating CPP to Template... I'm not sure it could be done
mechanically without a lot of work. Consider:
#define message This is the FOO place
#define FOO bar
message
vs
#define message This is the FOO place
message
vs
#define message This is the FOO place
#define This That
message
#undef This
#define FOO bar
message
You'd have to replace every /\w+/ with something that would look up
whether or not there was a current definition at rendering time, because
it could be changed. Ick.
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