Re: Python #ifdef

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Date	2013-06-03 12:05 +1000
Subject	Re: Python #ifdef
From	Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Message-ID	<mailman.2573.1370225159.3114.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Erik Max Francis <max@alcyone.com> wrote:
> On 05/29/2013 08:05 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
>>
>> It's not a bad tool. I used it as a sort of PHP preprocessor, because
>> requirements at work had me wanting to have a source file defining a
>> PHP class and having an autogenerated section in the middle of that
>> class. PHP's 'include' directive doesn't work for that. Of course, had
>> we been using a better language, that wouldn't have been an issue (and
>> it stopped being an issue when we improved the design and stopped
>> using that class system, too, though I retained the makefile
>> directives about building .php.m4 -> .php files). But still, GNU M4 is
>>
>> a decent piece of technology.
>
>
> Agreed.  The terror that most people feel when hearing "m4" is because m4
> was associated with sendmail, not because m4 was inherently awful. It has
> problems, but you'd only encounter them when doing something _very_
> abstract.

Ah. I actually wasn't aware of m4's use with sendmail. I first met it
as the aforementioned PHP preprocessor, simply by Googling for
something along the lines of "generic preprocessor". First hit solved
my problems.

ChrisA

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    Re: Python #ifdef Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-05-30 01:05 +1000
      Re: Python #ifdef Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2013-05-29 15:25 +0000
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        Re: Python #ifdef Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-06-03 12:05 +1000

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