Re: Syntactic sugar
- Posted by ghaberek (admin) Mar 20, 2018
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begin said...
it should/could be an alias, so it will not break existing code. for anyone with some math background, the # and = make sense. just because some some scripters took an easy way out for comments, does not make it bad.
never the less, if it is not trivial and/or a lot of effort, then please forget the suggestion. it is not religious, but a lazy, readable way to say # instead of != (c/d/c# ...) or <> (pascal ...).
I'm not the final authority on these things, but I don't see it being a realistic possibility.
You're welcome to implement this yourself using the preprocessor. (I'm sure this code could be made more smarter.)
include std/io.e include std/search.e sequence cmd = command_line() sequence inFileName, outFileName for i = 3 to length( cmds ) do switch cmd[i] do case "-i" then inFileName = cmd[i+1] case "-o" then outFileName = cmd[i+1] end switch end for sequence lines = read_lines( inFileName ) for i = 1 to length( lines ) do if search:begins( "#!", lines[i] ) then -- skip shebang line continue end if -- replace all instances of " # " with " != " -- using spaces should prevent accidentally -- replacing hex numbers (e.g. #80040023) lines[i] = match_replace( " # ", lines[i], " != " ) end for write_lines( outFileName, lines )
-Greg
