Re: [dwm] [OT] spp

Kris of wmii fame wrote a wonderful preprocessor/template in a few
lines of awk. It is used in werc and I really love it, for some
minimal docs see:

http://werc.cat-v.org/docs/rc_template_lang

The code is included as part of the werc distribution under bin/template.awk

Enjoy

uriel

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 2:45 PM, pancake <pancake_AT_youterm.com> wrote:
> Some time ago I started to write a new program to implement a simple
> preprocessor for doing
> some over-cpp preprocessing allowing me to use specials preprocessor tags
> inside the comments of the C code generated by Vala to add some funny hacks
> on top of it.
>
> I was also thinking on many other applications for the same concept, so i
> tried to keep the
> code as minimal as possible being able to work with streams or files and in
> the same time
> being able to write CGI's using the same preprocessing language.
>
> After a month or so I think is time to make it public (it was public since
> the beggining, but not published :P) So I would like to hear from you ideas,
> tips, patches, simplifications, etc..
>
> Actually spp works great and can partially emulate spp, pod and other
> preprocessors using a simple plugin-system (maybe dwm can get some ideas
> from this plugin system).
>
> So at the current state, spp is just a simple preprocessor engine whcih
> allows to implement
> different backends for multiple syntaxes or ways to parse the input in C at
> compile time and then use these rules to generate new data from a set of
> rules and some basic transformations.
>
> Actually i'm thinking on adding templates or some better way for scripting
> dataj to generate for example an index for a list of items or so, but I want
> first to let people play with it and the suckless community is probably the
> best one for getting decent feedback with this kind of minimalistic stuff.
>
>  hg clone http://news.nopcode.org/miau/hgi/spp/
>
> Thanks for listening  ;)
>
>
> --pancake
>
>
Received on Tue Apr 28 2009 - 19:11:37 UTC