Joe, yes thats what I'm thinking.. The thing is the amount of code that can be reduced via the preprocessor is enormous. Plus the fact that one could also preprocess into the resulting C code all sorts of wonderful error handling in a very succinct language construct. I hapen to perfer the conept of PRO*C, I don't like all of the weird errors that it generates and the various modes of operation. I'm advocating something that is a build it like I tell you to do, not how you interpret it. Leave out all of the goofy semantic checking etc.. Just let the normal C compiler handle that bit. There's no real need to connect to a sqlitedb just to verify the table exists. Ken
Joe Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, a pre processor, but not a wrapper. A wrapper as I've seen from the sqlite.org site is > simply a layer on top of the sqlite3 api. I've written my own wrapper. I'm > really looking to > see if instead of inserting an additional layer, the actual code could be > compiled inline into > the sourcing C file, thus a pre processor. Okay, I see. All the bad memories are coming back now... I used the PRO*C pre-processor ten years ago. What a disaster that approach is. Never again. The code is a mess and debugging is a nightmare. You actually need a static database schema to run your code-generating pre-processor against. You change your database schema and your code generator has some obscure syntax error. If your application crashes you have to wade through generated code to see WTF is going on. In the time it takes to chase down problems you could have written a superior application in a traditional language binding/wrapper. Just my opinion of course. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Cheap talk? Check out Yahoo! Messenger's low PC-to-Phone call rates. http://voice.yahoo.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
