Re: [OctDev] Re: Optimization : bfgs and cg_min

[Rafael L. <lab...@mp...>]

[GROSSMANN:
  Salut Etienne,
:]

[SF: 
  Hi Octave-Smiths,
:]

* Etienne Grossmann <et...@is...> [2002-04-23 21:34]:

> I've worked a little bit on "some sort of a preprocessor" that allows to
> maintain many .m files with a single template. The idea is that many
> functions with different synopsis and nearly the same internals would be
> easier to maintain : 
> [...]

There is a neat tool called slice (http://www.engelschall.com/sw/slice/)
that does a similar job.  The exemple in the POD section of your script,
would work with slice like this:

File foo.tpl:

    This is for all                                           
    This is also for all
    [SIMPLE:hello world:]
    [OBSEQUIOUS:Your excellent highness, please accept my humble "hello":]
    That's again for all

Command for generating the files:

    for i in SIMPLE OBSEQUIOUS
        do slice -o ${i}uUNDEF:foo_$(echo $i|tr A-Z a-z).txt foo.tpl
    done

It is also possible to define output filenames from inside the template
file.  In this case:

File foo.tpl:

    %!slice -o SIMPLEuUNDEF:foo_simple.txt
    %!slice -o OBSEQUIOUSuUNDEF:foo_obsequious.txt
    This is for all
    This is also for all
    [SIMPLE:hello world:]
    [OBSEQUIOUS:Your excellent highness, please accept my humble "hello":]
    That's again for all
    
Command for generating the files:

    slice foo.tpl

-- 
Rafael