Has anyone tried to extend the C Preprocessor to be a fully turing complete language (perhaps something like Snobol) to allow for Terra like meta-programming?
(I am not talking about metalang99 or Cello like stuff, which exploits the Turing tarpit of the currently specified preprocessor but rather tasteful additions to the preprocessor itself).
Has anyone tried to extend the C Preprocessor to be a fully turing complete language (perhaps something like Snobol) to allow for Terra like meta-programming?
(I am not talking about metalang99 or Cello like stuff, which exploits the Turing tarpit of the currently specified preprocessor but rather tasteful additions to the preprocessor itself).
There are a couple of constructs that you end up re-creating as soon as you need non-trivial preprocessing.
One of those is the two-stage CAT, another one is the NARG the article talks about.
__COUNTER__ is going to be added to C29, the next version of the standard, maybe there's hope for __VA_COUNT__ and __CAT__ too!
You don't need to extend the preprocessor to have MAP: https://github.com/swansontec/map-macro
The article shows how to implement map, but it should be a builtin
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