Re: [OT]: Elegant way round C scoping problem..? by Bill Westfield .

What we really need is a really good macro pre-processor to BUILD the language out of (99% of an assembler is just macro definitions with db's inside, and a good macro language can make all the if, thens, switch, case, do while, and whatevers you want) Well, there are plenty of stand-alone macro "preprocessors" that are probably suitably powerful and open source (m4, for instance?) But... lacking widespread standardization of the macros in use, this results in HORRIBLY unreadable (and not very portable) code. I knew a guy in college that had succeeded in making the local assembler look like an interesting cross between basic, fortran, and APL... Yuck. and a library manager that lets us keep multiple versions of routines and finds the "best fit" Like java's (and others?) feature that allows "add (char a, char b)" to be different code from "add (short a, short b)" ? BillW -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics