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<sneek>dsmith: Greetings :D

<dsmith>sneek, botnack

<dsmith>sneek, botsnack

<sneek>:)

<dsmith>m4? I've seen it used with an X11 schematic/CAD program.

<dsmith>Also, (shudders) sendmail

<dsmith>Back-in-the-day Motorola has some DOS 688K assemblers with no macro capability. I used m4 nicely with those.

<dsmith>M4 has diversions! CPP doesn't. Guile needs to make a separate CPP snarfing pass because no diversions.

<lilyp>clearly we should reimplement our preprocessor macros in m4

<manumanumanu>old: btw, alex shinns old fmt thingie contains a c formatter. It can probably be ported to srfi-166 quite easily. SRFI-166 is, in my opinion, probably the future of string formatting for scheme

<manumanumanu> http://synthcode.com/scheme/fmt/

<manumanumanu>although currently it is less than half as fast as format, but that could be fixed with something akin to compiler macros. There is one implementation basen on generators I believe, and it would be nice to see if that is any faster on guile.

<dsmith>lilyp, Hah!

<mwette>manumanumanu: it allows one to create custom formatters? Say, format floats in hex format : 0x0.FFFFp1

<old>manumanumanu: srfi-166 looks nice, but I don't think that it it what I'm looking for

<old>here's a templated Makefile that I did waayyyy back for a project: https://github.com/oldiob/YAROS/blob/master/autogen/tpl/makefile.tpl

<old>and an ininitalization routine in C auto-generated: https://github.com/oldiob/YAROS/blob/master/autogen/tpl/init.tpl

<old>See how the main language is text and you call to Scheme when you need dynamic text

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