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Re: [Chicken-users] ideas


From: Peter Keller
Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] ideas
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 16:47:11 -0500
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On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 11:10:43PM +0200, felix wrote:
> Good idea. I want to address the extension mechanism first, but then
> (if there is nothing other pressing) I will give the web-page a
> facelift.

All things in good time, I suppose. :)

> Something like the above is definitely useful. 
> Unfortunately I haven't heard yet of any "known uses"... ;-)

Well, in a month or two if I can find time for it, I'll have an actual
tool written in chicken. It is called "fastargs". Basically, it is a tool
where you write in a little language the command line arguments you'd
like your program to have, and then it converts it into a command line
parser of the language of your choice(C, scheme, C++, etc). It basically
spits out a chunk of code in the target language with an API consistant
across all the languages to query the command line options passed to the
program. It doesn't solve every bizzare case you can come up with for
command line argument parsing, but it solves a lot of common ones.

This is basically my practice use for chicken before William and I get
down to business writing libraries and tools for system administration
purposes.

-pete




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