From: Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Date: 2007-05-03T23:22:35+09:00
Subject: Re: C DSL anyone?

I wrote a tool a while back I called rubypp (pp as in preprocessor),
which lets you do something like this:

#include <iostream>

#ruby <<END
  puts '#define FOO BAR'
  '#define BAR BAZ'
END

#ruby def foo(x)              ; \
        x.to_s.chop           ; \
      end

extern "C" {
int foo(int a) {
  std::cout << "1" << std::endl;
}

int foo(double a) {
  std::cout << "2" << std::endl;
}

main() {
  foo(1);
  foo(1.0);
  std::cout << "#{foo(1.0)}" << std::endl;
}

which produces this output:

#include <iostream>

#define FOO BAR
#define BAR BAZ


extern "C" {
int foo(int a) {
  std::cout << "1" << std::endl;
}

int foo(double a) {
  std::cout << "2" << std::endl;
}

main() {
  foo(1);
  foo(1.0);
  std::cout << "1." << std::endl;
}

The syntax is a little odd, but it's surprisingly powerful.  I use it to
generate code for nodewrap.  You can find it at:

http://rubystuff.org/rubypp/rubypp.rb

Paul