Talk:Compiler/Simple file inclusion pre processor: Difference between revisions

:Hi Jwells - thanks for considering this Task. When I created it I thought it would be a way to compare how different languages (could) handle file inclusion (not that all do). The difficulty of handling e.g. PL1's %Include compared to e.g. C's #include seemed an interesting way of comparing languages. I also thought having a set of file-inclusion pre-processors available on RC would make it easier for the solutions to other tasks to use file inclusion for common things. That seemed a good idea at the time...

:Whilst the task isn't intended to be "Implement the C pre-processor in your language", for languages that don't have their own specific syntax, that is an option for this task. I see from your User page that you are doing stuff in Kotlin - which I imagine doesn't have in built file inclusion - if you wanted to implement a C-style #include in Kotlin, that would be nice.

:I was hoping to keep the task reasonably simple so it didn't require implementation of #define or #if-#endif etc., however I agree they are useful things to have. I gather that the C pre-processor is used in in some current Fortran programming, for example. Maybe implementing a macro processor should be a task too ?

:BTW, you should probably sign your comments - add <nowiki>--~~~~</nowiki> (without the "nowiki" tags) to the end of the comment.

:--[[User:Tigerofdarkness|Tigerofdarkness]] ([[User talk:Tigerofdarkness|talk]]) 12:23, 22 May 2022 (UTC)