Re: Proto-RFC: A Standard Always-Live Preprocessor

2000-08-04 Thread Dan Sugalski
At 01:23 PM 8/4/00 -0400, John Porter wrote: >Jonathan Scott Duff wrote: > > Perl. :-) > > > > Isn't this what source filters is all about? > >There's something to be said for there being a standard, always-on >preprocessor, the way C has cpp. While -P makes available a nice >usable preprocesso

Proto-RFC: A Standard Always-Live Preprocessor

2000-08-04 Thread John Porter
Jonathan Scott Duff wrote: > Perl. :-) > > Isn't this what source filters is all about? There's something to be said for there being a standard, always-on preprocessor, the way C has cpp. While -P makes available a nice usable preprocessor for perl, not much code uses it, because not many pro