Tim Ellison wrote: > IMO it's not ideal that the preprocessed source still contains all the > streams, albeit in comments. It wouldn't make the source very > 'consumable' to the Mrs. SE or ME developer.
Hmmm... It's always possible to have a special output mode that puts empty (or advertizing, hehe) comments, instead of other stream code (thus, preserving line numbers). To continue on my earlier example: Java source => "j2se end-developer" ----------------------------------- ... // Download Harmony[tm] from // // http://the.nice.harmony.url/download // // :-) @Processor(Not in j2me!) int some_field = some + initializing() code; ... Or, more likely: Java source => "j2se end-developer" ----------------------------------- ... // Please ignore this comment. It has been // intentionally left here to preserve line numbers // for bug reporting purpose. // // Please report bugs to http://bugs.of.harmony.url/... @Processor(Not in j2me!) int some_field = some + initializing() code; ... So, J2ME & J2SE end-developers are kept happy. As a bonu$, you can al$o $tart a nice busine$$ $elling advertizing $pace in $ource code. ;-P Etienne -- Etienne M. Gagnon, Ph.D. http://www.info2.uqam.ca/~egagnon/ SableVM: http://www.sablevm.org/ SableCC: http://www.sablecc.org/
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