Nieminen Juha wrote:
> 
> PoD <pod### [at] merlinnetau> wrote:
> : I'm beginning to think that #static as a type of #declare would be more
> : feasible, after all it is only usefull for things which take a long time
> : to parse such as complex unions and meshes.
> 
>   You forget that you can make #while-loops which take hours to parse although
> it creates only some simple objects.

You could make a #while loop which takes days to parse and creates no
objects at all

> 
> : When parsing a #static declaration, check if the name is already in the
> : symbol table.  If it is then skip to the end of the declaration.
> 
> : How do you know what's the end of the declaration?
> : Firstly all declarations should end with a semi colon.  Then each
> : [#declare|#local|#static] would match up with a semi colon.
> 
>   You still have to parse the entire code to see where is the matching
> semicolon.

If a #while loop is inside a #static declaration, you'd only have to
look for the matching #end which would not take long at all.
#include would be totally ignored.

>   There's no way to avoid parsing other than copying the whole source code
> to memory without the static parts of it and then parse this copy.

What difference does reading it into memory make?

> 
> --
> main(i,_){for(_?--i,main(i+2,"FhhQHFIJD|FQTITFN]zRFHhhTBFHhhTBFysdB"[i]
> ):5;i&&_>1;printf("%s",_-70?_&1?"[]":" ":(_=0,"\n")),_/=2);} /*- Warp -*/

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