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Re: Suggestions for a preprocessor

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BartC wrote:

> Why do you need a preprocessor? It seems to me that any simple language
> will do the job.

As the task consisted of, basically, defining a template for a document and, 
from that, create a series of documents by replacing a given variable with a 
value, it appeared that the best way to go around doing this would be with a 
macro processor.


> Or is this example embedded in a mass of other text? 

Yes.  Although the example I've provided is a bit slimsy on the details, 
basically what I intended to do was create a template for a document that 
defined a model in terms of a set of parameters.  Then, that template would 
be used to create a series of models which reflected the way a given 
parameter was tweaked.


> Perhaps a more
> complete example is needed. Even then, if the input is line oriented (so
> you don't need macro expansions in the middle of a line, and don't need
> nested macros), a simple language might still work.

Since I've started this thread, I've started writing a small Perl script to 
generate the models.  Perl's support for here-document string literals 
appears to do a decent job at this.


Rui Maciel

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Suggestions for a preprocessor Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2012-05-27 17:29 +0100
  Re: Suggestions for a preprocessor Fritz Wuehler <fritz@spamexpire-201205.rodent.frell.theremailer.net> - 2012-05-28 02:16 +0200
    Re: Suggestions for a preprocessor Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2012-05-28 12:32 +0100
      Re: Suggestions for a preprocessor "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-05-28 13:51 +0100
        Re: Suggestions for a preprocessor Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2012-05-28 16:19 +0100
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      Re: Suggestions for a preprocessor "Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> - 2012-05-28 14:45 +0100
        Re: Suggestions for a preprocessor Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2012-05-28 16:21 +0100
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