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From: gmt@cs.arizona.edu (Gregg Townsend)
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Subject: Re: pre-processing?
Date: 8 Aug 2003 08:53:13 -0700
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> Do I recall correctly that in the dim distant past you could pre-process the
> Icon source through m4 or similar?
Yes. That was before Icon had its own preprocessor ($define, $if, etc.).
> Can I do that now? I want to embed simple timestamps into the files each
> time they are compiled. Are there any new &keywords I'm missing that perform
> this duty? [not the runttime time, but the build time and a few other
> obvious facts]
You can run m4 manually, but it's no longer an option to icont.
There's nothing in Icon that will give you that timestamp.
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