Re: Inline macros or plugin

[Chip Seraphine]

On Friday 20 August 2004 14:07, Mark wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a task that I want to call for a bunch of classes that always repeats
> the same configuration, except for one or two values.
> Something like:
> 
> ....
> Copy:
>   case1::
>     somedir/case1/
>       dest=/newdir/case1
> 
>   case2::
>     somedir/case2/
>       dest=/newdir/case2
> 
>   case3::
>     somedir/case3/
>       dest=/newdir/case3
> ....
> 
> Etc. etc. The actual configuration is much longer, so I have to deal with a
> lot of redundancy and duplication...

If the destination names are the same, you can use an iterator.  If it's not, 
you can marginally improve things by doing this:

control:
        case1::  var= ( case1 )
        case2::  var= (case2 )
        case2::  var= (case3 )
        #etc

copy:
        /somedir/$(var) dest=/newdir/$(var)

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