autocoding project proposal

[dman]

On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 08:50:35PM +0000, Neil Hodgson wrote:
| Brian Raven:
| 
| > For example, if you need to generate code fragments to replace tags in
| > an existing template (possibly read from a file), you would need to
| > parse the existing code to establish the appropriate indent.
| 
|    Won't your tags already be at the appropriate indent? I'd expect input
| something like
| 
| class X:
|         def init(self):
|                 pass
|         <<tagReader>>
|         def writer(self, f):
|                 <<tagWriter>>

If you want to insert more than one LOC, you'll still need to know the
indentation level for the other lines.

If you want to easily generate code, generate LISP :-).

-D

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