Re: Compile time executed functions

["Ken Garlington" <Ken.Garlington@computer.org>]

"Simon Wright" <simon@pushface.org> wrote in message
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: "Ken Garlington" <Ken.Garlington@computer.org> writes:
:
: > It's the part about "pasting the output" that seems odd. Why not
: > have it generate a stand-alone Ada *package* (e.g, BlahBlah)? We do
: > this now in a number of cases. In fact, you can have an automated
: > build script that generates the code, updates the CM system with it,
: > then does the things you usually expect in such a script (extract
: > source from CM system, compile, link...)
:
: The part that worries me about that is the 'updates the CM system with
: it'. I can see that there _are_ arguments, it's just that I've also
: seen projects keep the generated code in the CM system *and then
: modify it by hand*.

Note the part about automatically extracting the source from the CM system.
Usually, we set this up so that it would overwrite any "hand-edited"
versions in the same directory.