Re: Proto-RFC: A Standard Always-Live Preprocessor

[Dan Sugalski]

At 01:23 PM 8/4/00 -0400, John Porter wrote:
>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.

More likely:

1) C's preprocessor isn't very perlish, so its awfully jarring
2) Lots of it isn't needed
3) C's preprocessor has a number of unpleasant flaws
4) Not everyone has a C preprocessor around to use

If we're going to do it, it should be in perl and perlish.

                                        Dan

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