If you are interrested in metaprogramming and/or code template generation ...

If you are interrested in metaprogramming and/or code template generation ...

[Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)]

Hello,

If you are interrested in metaprogramming and/or code template
generation, I suggest you to have a look at this :
http://gema.sourceforge.net/new/index.shtml

This is a generic preprocessor with no predefined syntax (unlike CPP,
as an example). Basically, it requires tree parameters : an input
file, an output file and .... a rules file.

The manual is here (with relevant basic examples) :
http://gema.sourceforge.net/new/gema_man.pdf

There are binaries for both Linux and Windows.

To be honest, I first looked at another one called GPP (general
purpose preprocessor), but no windows binary was provided, so I though
that GEMA was more serious.

Re: If you are interrested in metaprogramming and/or code template generation ...

[Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)]

Hint: there is a little bug with the "-nobackup" option. You can avoid
it if youse invok GEMA using the
"gema options... -out output_file input_file..." form
instead of the
"gema options... [ input_file [ output_file ]]" form

If you use the second form, the option "-nobackup" will not work
properly and the input file may be overwritten.

Apart of that, it works fine and is useful