Re: [Groff] Local/global/my/common

[Miklos Somogyi]

Werner thank you,

Just out of interest. As someone who hates typing a lot and loves  
silly 2 character names,
I would write a Perl script to list and sort number registers in  
source files.
Is there a utility that does that regarding groff and other compiled  
companions?
Perhaps done using the source just before compilation?

Miklos

On 04/01/2009, at 06:58 PM, Werner LEMBERG wrote:

> > Groff is a programming language, sort of. I wonder whether already
> > exist a scope-separating mechanism for number registers,
>
> No.
>
> > just I do not know about it, or is there such a thing in the
> > pipeline in the future?
>
> Yes.
>
> > If you mistype the name of a macro, it won't get executed, and in
> > the absence of a warning you may think that everything is ok.  I
> > believe that one may get a warning, but I can't find it how.
>
> groff's command line option -ww activates all warnings.
>
> > With number registers, what is the best policy to avoid conflict? By
> > naming conventions? Weirder and weirder?
>
> A macro package `foo' should use its name as a prefix to create a kind
> of namespace: foo_bar, foo:bar, foo-bar, foo*bar, etc., etc.
>
>
>    Werner