Proto-RFC: A Standard Always-Live Preprocessor

[John Porter]

Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
> Perl.  :-)
> 
> Isn't this what source filters is all about?

There's something to be said for there being a standard, always-on
preprocessor, the way C has cpp.   While -P makes available a nice
usable preprocessor for perl, not much code uses it, because not
many programmers want to bother with the extra two keystrokes!
Or perhaps more the point, -P is essentially never used in any of
the canonical code examples, books, etc.

-- 
John Porter

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