[fpc-pascal] Proper preprocessor?

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Wed, 20 Jun 2018, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:

> The other alternative would be break the compiler in such a way that it 
> was usable from a standard makefile, but since there isn't separate 
> compilation of definition and implementation parts this would probably 
> impact on type safety. I believe that this too has been debated in the 
> past, and has attracted even less enthusiasm than a hook for an extrnal 
> preprocessor preprocessor.

Nothing stops people from preprocessing their code if they need really
advanced preprocessing: The toolchain can handle it already.

But there is no need to integrate it in the compiler and thus needlessly
complicating it even more. The consequences of such a step are far-reaching.

And till now, no-one has presented the really pressing use cases that would 
warrant such a step.

Michael.