Paul Mensonides wrote:
The only way as long as you commit to not look outside C++.
Which is the whole point from a library perspective. Relying on awk (or any other external tool) to write C++ isn't so bad, but relying on it to compile C++ is unacceptable.
Fair enough.
There are plenty of text manipulation tools outside C++ that offer what could be done with the C++ preprocessor with programming paradigms that I consider unworthy of learning.
Frankly, without knowing them, you aren't in a position for your opinion to be worth anything. You're a smart guy, Andrei, so the learning curve shouldn't be too difficult for you. Why don't you learn those paradigms and then decide whether they are "worthy" instead of making blanket statements based on nothing?
Oh, that's a misunderstanding. I did learn them. My opinion is based on actual information. I can't claim to be a pp lib expert, but I have an understanding of it. I agree that otherwise an opinion wouldn't be worth anything. So what I was trying to say was, the point at which I will veer away from pp-based programming to other tools happens earlier than others'. Andrei