[Oberon] Preprocessing

[Patrik Reali]

I mean ETH code. We have of course no influence on thirdparty code.

-Patrik

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gérard Meunier" <gmeunier at club-internet.fr>
To: <oberon at inf.ethz.ch>
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 4:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Oberon] Preprocessing


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Patrik Reali <reali at acm.org>
> To: <oberon at inf.ethz.ch>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 8:51 AM
> Subject: Re: [Oberon] Preprocessing
>
>
> > This is correct. The reason why it is not documented is because it is
> > deprecated and we would like to remove it (it is IMHO a bad practice,
and
> > makes sources unreadable).
> >
> > We inserted this feature in the builder while experimentating with the
> > handling of multiple system versions. We have since then found a better
> > approach by using file name prefixes, the feature remained to handle
old,
> > out-dated, sources.
> >
> > -Patrik
>
> Not so old. In fact I found my first example in the last files of
> antsInFields. But I agree with you: IMHO too, this feature makes sources
> less readable, manually and automatically.
>
> Regards.
>
> Gérard
>
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