[Oberon] Preprocessing

[Gérard Meunier]

Thanks, Edgar. I see now. Introduced in 96. A rather old feature.

Unfortunately, I see that the grammatical structure of a mod file becomes
more and more complex. The grammar of AOS, for example, has no exact EBNF
description yet.

Regards.

Gérard

----- Original Message -----
From: <Edgar at edgarschwarz.de>
To: <oberon at inf.ethz.ch>
Cc: <Edgar at edgarschwarz.de>
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 9:46 PM
Subject: Re: [Oberon] Preprocessing


> Hello Gérard,
> > It find sometimes in Bluebottle sources texts that look like
preprocessor
> > instructions ($IF ... $END).
> Builder.Compile \D=gerard ...
> $IF gerard THEN ... { $ELSIF ... } [ $ELSE ... ] $END
> > I can't find any documentation about this feature.
> For "documentation" see Builder.Compile, Builder.get.
> It's just a Builder goodie.
>
> Regards, Edgar
>
>
>
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