Re: macros (was Re: string api)

2002-05-16 Thread Andy Dougherty
On Thu, 16 May 2002, Nicholas Clark wrote: > It's not nice. It's enough to drive people loopy, just looking at the output > of the preprocessor, where one source line has expanded to a 10 line wrapped > monstrosity so right in parenthesis that it couldn't be written with a dozen > Lisp fridge mag

Re: macros (was Re: string api)

2002-04-09 Thread Robert Spier
Melvin Smith wrote: > At 10:30 PM 4/8/2002 -0700, Robert Spier wrote: >>> Keep track of global (or interpreter local) scope with a macro >>> upon entry. >> I shudder every time someone says "macro" on p6i. >> perl5 has several thousand macros defined. (grep for ^#define) (over > Are you counting

Re: macros (was Re: string api)

2002-04-08 Thread Melvin Smith
At 10:30 PM 4/8/2002 -0700, Robert Spier wrote: >>Keep track of global (or interpreter local) scope with a macro >>upon entry. > >I shudder every time someone says "macro" on p6i. > >perl5 has several thousand macros defined. (grep for ^#define) (over 8000 >if you include all the embedding macr

macros (was Re: string api)

2002-04-08 Thread Robert Spier
> Keep track of global (or interpreter local) scope with a macro > upon entry. I shudder every time someone says "macro" on p6i. perl5 has several thousand macros defined. (grep for ^#define) (over 8000 if you include all the embedding macros. it's down to ~4000 if you cut out embedding, co