[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#8372) [RFC] Inline generator

["Raimar Falke" <i-freeciv-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8372 >

On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 05:41:17PM -0800, Jason Short wrote:
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> <URL: http://rt.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=8372 >
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> > [i-freeciv-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - Sat Mar 27 06:48:15 2004]:
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> > > that was solved a long time ago.
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> > But not here. What solutions do you know here?
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> Funcational language features (like lisp macros) are the proper
> solution.  Rather than generators I'd suggest a functional preprocessor.

The problem I see is: provide a way to inline certain parts of the
code across multiple compilation units and do this in a way where this
is opaque to the programmer.

The one solution which comes this nearest are the multi-file
interprocedural optimizations of the intel compiler.

There are solutions which avoid some part of the problem by not having
seperate declarations. Java for example and also preprocess
(http://freshmeat.net/projects/preprocess/).

Can you explain in more detail what a functional preprocessor is?

> But I still believe it is a waste of time.

Quite possible.

BTW: this preprocess is the closest thing I found to what I have in mind.

        Raimar

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