cpp replaced by m4?

[Steven W. Orr]

On Tuesday, Jul 3rd 2007 at 12:18 -0400, quoth Kent Johnson:

=>Bill Sconce wrote:
=>>> => 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...
=>
=>Cog lets you use Python as a code generator embedded in C or whatever:
=>http://www.nedbatchelder.com/code/cog/index.html
=>
=>I think your example would look something like this:
=>
=>int *arr[]() = {
=>/*[[[cog
=>import cog
=>for ii in 'l1 l2 l3 l4'.split():
=>     cog.outl('func%s,' % ii)
=>]]]*/
=>//[[[end]]]
=>     };
=>
=>Kent

BINGO! This is it! This is what we need. Thanks :-)

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