OpenEuphoria

Re: Preprocessor

• Posted by "Kat" <gertie at visionsix.com> Nov 18, 2003
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On 18 Nov 2003, at 13:07, Christian Cuvier wrote:

> 
> 
> > Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 13:49:51 +0000
> > From: "Stewart MacKenzie-Leigh" <stewartml89 at msn.com>
> > Subject: Preprocessor
> > 
> > 
> > I am writing a preprocessor for eu.
> > 
> > It will do much of the same stuff as PP, only it will have support for 
> > classes and structures.
> > If anyone has any other ideas for it, please say.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > _________________
> > 
> > StewartML
> 
>  I started a preprocessor project about 1 year ago, called idEu. It 
> implements classes, structs, macros, goto, more loop flow control 
> statements, a select/case construct, plus about 30 to 40 additional 
> features. Still got a couple of them to test and debug, the others 
> respond correctly in short code snippets.

Bach has those. Don't jump me about promoting Bach tho, not yet... I am 
just thinking there is a lot of duplication going on here. Afaik, there are 3 
alternate languages based to some degree on Eu, and the designers of 
those 3 are not talking to each other, and not collaborating, combining 
energies? Granted Bach and Eu are closed proprietary projects we cannot 
get into, but i wonder if Bach is so much more advanced now that it bears 
only a glancing resembalance to Eu. But maybe it is a lot like your OpenEu.

>  As I'm currently working an another language (OpenEuphoria) 
> documentation, this was stalled for a few months. Hope to complete this 
> project though. 
> 
> 
>  Testing and rewriting the yet uninspected code may take 1 month. After 
> that, there's a doc to write (nothing was done yet) 
>                 and test on a largish scale project to perform, as 
> interaction between features may be tricky sometimes and short snippets 
> won't catch the subtle bugs. Could release Q3, 2004.
>  If you want to help, that's very much welcome.

Whacha need? Atm, i am writing a debugger for Bach, but i am not involved 
in the development of it, so some of my wish list is still unrealised... 
Actually, i am not good with windows gui programming, so my debugger will 
prolly come out as dos, if i get no help. If i do, then Bach will have a windows
gui debugging environment, with ability to change the contents of variables 
from the gui at runtime. And trace options, etc.. Karl cannot sell such a thing 
for Bach, if he is basing his interpreter on Eu, but i assume i can, Rob? Or 
give it away? It's debug only, and isn't for a production codebase, that is to 
say, the debug commands embedded in the code will not be recognised by 
Bach itself.

Kat