cpp replaced by m4?

[Steven W. Orr]

On Tuesday, Jul 3rd 2007 at 11:56 -0400, quoth Bill Sconce:

=>> => Can we have an example of why you want to do this?
=>> 
=>> Sure. For starters, one thing that we're looking to do:
=>> 
=>> Loops.
=>> 
=>> int *arr[]() = {
=>> #for ii in l1 l2 l3 l4 etc
=>> #do
=>>     func##cpp_eval(ii),
=>> #done
=>>     };
=>
=>
=>Ah.  He wants Python...
=>
=>:)  :)

Actually no. Another friend suggest that perl could do it. But what I 
really want is macro processing, not to write my C code from another 
script. The best thing would be a drop in module to replace cpp. M4 would 
be ok, it's the setup that's the hard part.

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