Re: Dave Emery's proposal for Ada preprocessor

[arny@cbnewsl.ATT.COM (arny.b.engelson)]

In article <8912122030.AA05794@Herbrand.Inference.Com> sdl@herbrand.Inference.Com (Daniel Lee) writes:
>Currently, we are using cpp on a Sun to preprocess the master Ada
>source with cpp macros embedded (e.g. #if, #endif, etc.).  Then, we preprocess
>it using cpp.
>
>				Danile Lee
>				Inference Corporation
>				sdl@inference.com

You're not the only one doing this.  I have seen folks here also using the
C preprocessor to maintain Ada code for more than one target.  This is a
pretty good indication that we need a standard Ada preprocessor.  You can
argue for or against such a thing based on philosophical reasons, but if
experienced, competent programmers are going as far as using cpp, we really
ought to create a standard Ada preprocessor.

  -- Arny Engelson   att!wayback!arny