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From: Kaz Kylheku <920-082-4242@kylheku.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Where is igawk and why doesn't @include replicate this  feature?
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 03:00:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f91809f47f6caa1211e93afaaffe77e6@mail.kylheku.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC9BAENxZs7ZwSHz1Xq0DAxP0tS6R4fUQ6Rv_tEG_qrCsOZTew@mail.gmail.com>

On 2019-09-10 23:54, Troy Kenah wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have a large number of scripts that were using the the igawk script,
> however I have updated my gawk to a newer release that has
> obsoleted/removed the igawk script.

Gawk's build system stopped installing igawk over five years ago:

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gawk.git/commit/?id=577ece63770a6c4b5ad00d6998127fb7e85b86b9

> I used to embed @include junk.awk statements to reduce repetitive code 
> but
> this no longer works. These were files were not functions, simply code
> snippets; this is the type of error I am now seeing:

Clearly, the script is not exactly obsolete, since the @include facility 
in
Gawk seems only to work with syntactically complete units, whereas
igawk performs blind textual inclusion.

If I were you, I'd just bring the igawk script into my code base and
continue that way. It's a tiny script that is licensed as
public domain; it doesn't carry much "technical debt" or licensing
debt.


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      parent reply	other threads:[~2019-09-11 22:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-11 11:52 Troy Kenah
2019-09-11 14:27 ` Steven Penny
2019-09-12  5:18   ` Brian Inglis
2019-09-11 18:10 ` Achim Gratz
2019-09-12  3:00 ` Kaz Kylheku [this message]

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