[fpc-pascal] Proper preprocessor?

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Wed Jun 20 15:18:39 CEST 2018


In our previous episode, Michael Van Canneyt said:
> 
> 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.

(note that external preprocessing also creates an extra level above FPC
preprocessing. There is no conflict between those, because external is
always first.

I agree fully with Michael. It is the usual "if all you have is a hammer"
argument)



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