> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 10:06:15 -0700 (MST)
> From: Walt Brainerd <[log in to unmask]>
> Writing a "preprocessor" or "preparser" seems like a lot of hassle
> to overcome this small problem. And there are always technical problems
> with hashing names into shorter ones that can be solved, but are some
> times ugly. I can think of dozens of much more useful tools (how about
> an function/subroutine interface builder?) if somebody wants to do this
> sort of thing.
That's my point. Once the parser tools exist, writing these tools becomes
much, much easier. I agree that writing a parser to produce any one of these
tools isn't worth the effort, which is _exactly_ why these tools do not exist.
-David
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