[stack] ANN: Concatenative Macro Processor

"Mark W. Humphries" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.concatenative
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Minimac (http://freshmeat.net/projects/minimac-macro-processor) is a
minimalist, general purpose text macro processor. 
It uses an explicit argument stack, and user functions are defined by concatenation.
The software is currently in alpha release.

Example: 99 bottles of beer (http://99-bottles-of-beer.net/)

    `drink! ( u -- ) `{continue}${#}
    this-many-bottles of beer on the wall, this-many-bottles of beer.
    Take one down and pass it around, fewer-bottles of beer on the wall.

    {repeat}` 

    `oh-no! ( -- ) `No more bottles of beer on the wall, no more bottles of beer.` 

    `please! ( u -- u ) `{#}
    Go to the store and buy some more, this-many-bottles of beer on the wall.` 

    `this-many-bottles ( u -- u ) `[{dup} 0& ~no more bottles~& {case} 1& ~1 bottle~& {case} {.} ~ bottles~]` 

    `fewer-bottles ( u -- u-1 ) `{--}$this-many-bottles` 

    99& drink!
    oh-no!
    99& please!



Cheers,
 Mark Humphries
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