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The purpose of this task is to demonstrate how a file inclusion pre-processor could be implemented in your language, for your language. This does not mean to imply that your language needs a file inclusion pre-processor - many languages don't have such a facility.
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Other languages, on the other hand do have file inclusion, e.g.: C, COBOL, PL/1.
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<br>The distinction between compiled and interpreted languages should be irrelevent - this is a specialised text processing excersise - reading a source file and producing a modified source file that contains the contents of one or more other files.
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Hopefully, the solutions to this task will enable the file inclusion facilities of the languages to be compared, even for languages that don't need such facilities because they have sophisticated equivalents.
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So...
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Create a simple pre-processor that implements file-inclusion for your language.
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The pre-processor need not implement macros, conditional compilation, etc. (E.g. for COBOL, the REPLACING option need not be implemented ).
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The syntax accepted for your pre-processor should be as per the standard for your language,
E.g. for C the pre-processor must recognise and handle "#include" directives. For PL/1, %include statements would be processed and for COBOL, COPY statements, etc.
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If your language does not have a standard facility for file-inclusion, implement that used by a popular compiler for the language.
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If there is no such feature
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