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My thoughts precisely. Maybe it could be renamed to string parser and replacer(?) for C++. SPaRC.
by ainiriand 5y ago
My thoughts precisely. Maybe it could be renamed to string parser and replacer(?) for C++. SPaRC.
- WalterGR 5y ago“Template” is a term of art for this sort of thing, but if you’re looking for an alternative, there’s already “macro processor” for things like this. It’s what GNU’s M4 is called, for example. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M4_(computer_language) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/M4_(computer_language) But - whoops - now you’ve got collision with C++ “macros” - which already has collision with Lisp “macros” and text editor / word processor macros - and “processor” which looks a lot like the C++ “preprocessor” and …