Re: [Libmesh-devel] New getpot.h

[Derek G. <fri...@gm...>]

On Dec 15, 2009, at 12:09 PM, Roy Stogner wrote:

> Did you have time to test the current version yet?

I have not.  Thanks for reminding me.


> I'm looking over it now, and it looks like it should be really easy to
> add the include files functionality.
> 
> Here's my thoughts for the extended API:
> 
> If text in brackets has whitespace in it, it is interpreted as a
> directive rather than as a section name.  I.e.
> [include.chemistry.in] is a section name, whereas
> [include chemistry.in] is an include directive that reads the contents
> of the chemistry.in file (and of any files that chemistry.in includes,
> depth first).

That's a little twiddly for me.  What about using some other type of brackets?  Like <> so it would be:

<chemistry.in>


> On the other hand, it would be just as easy to eschew writing Yet
> Another Meta-Language, and instead just run all input files through a
> cpp pipe before parsing the result.

We already do something like this... we just open multiple getpot objects to multiple input files and parse each one.  It works _ok_ but there is some crappy code in there....

Derek