Re: Looking for new language features

Randall Hyde <rhyde@cs.ucr.edu> writes:


I think it's a great idea because I did something similar with
Fortran-90. I have a programmable preprocessor that allows one to
write, in a C-like language, directives and transformations that
operate on programs. It's being used for parallelizing f90. You can
specify, for example, that a loop nest be dynamically distributed and
the preprocessor will examine the data structures used in the loops,
create temps, modify the loops, etc. So I guess I wouldn't call it a
macro language but it is a compile time language. It doesn't require
the user to understand all the gory details typically found in a
compiler, and, because one person can write directives, doesn't
require a formal standards process to add needed constructs.


There's more info at www.peakfive.com/p5_f90.html.


> etoffi@bigfoot.com wrote on 9/8/00 2:15 PM:
>
> Let me offer the following suggestion (which, undoubtedly, will raise
> some red-flags with the anti-macro crowd): write a decent preprocessor
> for C/C++ that gives you a compile-time language that lets people
> create their own extensions to the language.

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