Re: strings and macros

[Ethan A M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Tuesday 05 July 2005 12:07 pm, Juergen Wieferink wrote:
> Johannes Zellner wrote:
> > 1. A limitation to 80 characters for sprintf really hurts!
>
> Full ACK.

OK, OK.  I've coded it up.  It's ugly but it works.
I'll try to clean it up a bit before adding to cvs. 


> > 2. dynamical macros would be really nice ;-)

Petr and I had this discussion a while back.
I don't see a good way to do it, for exactly the reason you
pointed out - the macro expansion happens before the line has
been tokenized, so we can't use any of our nice tools to check
for function names or evaluate expressions.

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Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle 98195-7742