OpenEuphoria

Re: Preprocessors

• Posted by David Cuny <dcuny at LANSET.COM> Aug 23, 2002
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jbrown wrote:

> On other other hand, there were lots of good preprocessors 
> such as PP, Dot, EuPP, etc which are very good but never 
> mentioned or recommended. I wonder why.

While developing EE, I used PP extensively. Key to it's use was:

1. A 1:1 match in statements. That meant that if there was an error in a .ex 
file on line 123, it corresponded to line 123 in the .pp file. Having to 
search for the corresponding line number in the source file would have been 
painful.

2. PP was built into EE, so it automagically converted files. This meant that 
it was entirely transparent to use it.

Eventually, however, I stopped using it. I thought that many of the ideas in 
PP were useful, and it helped coding EE immensely. 

But the source files were useless for people who didn't have PP installed on 
their machines, and the source files were ugly once PP got done converting 
them. So I finally decided to just code in 'pure' Euphoria and hope I could 
convince Robert to add my favorite features.

-- David Cuny