OpenEuphoria

EUPHORIA PRE-PROCESSOR

• Posted by Ad Rienks <Ad_Rienks at COMPUSERVE.COM> Feb 11, 1997
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Reply to note from david cuny 10/2/97:

>gabriel suggested (and i agree) that PP needs to generate ".e" file
>automatically. the point at which we disagree is what to call the
>extension.

>gabriel suggested ".ee" and ".eex"; this seems a bit confusing. i'd
>prefer the shorter ".p" and ".px", or perhaps ".pp" and ".p". i dunno.
>if people have any opinions about this, let me know.

>i plan on adding the long overdue =& operator, and a couple of new
>features, depending on how much utility they seem to give.

>any wish-list items before i begin my coding frenzy?

>-- david cuny

Hello David,

I'm just reading a book on SQL and a thought came to my mind.
Could it be possible to have some SQL-like commands in the preprocessor?

In SQL you work with tables, mostly 2-dimensional, and extract information
from these tables(lists) by:

SELECT var1 <,var2>
FROM list1 <,list2>
WHERE <some conditions>;

It seems like a lot of work to implement this in your preprocessor,
especially since you want to keep a 1-to-1 relation with the generated
code. But it is an item on my wishlist. I will rethink it also and look at
the consequences.

You want suggestions on how to call extensions? Well, I don't know if you
are a big C-hater, but what about the .h, or maybe .eh? You could use that
for generating .e files, and leave the .ee for .ex files, or maybe use .x
as an extension there.

I'd love to see a =& operator, and also possibly an operator to replace
append.

And then your text-GUI. I haven't seen your v .4, but I used a lot of the
.3 stuff in an apllication I'm building. Hope .4 is not very uncompatible.
I look forward to it.

Thanx and good luck!

Ad Rienks