[PATCH 8/9 V3] Add documentation for the new DTS language.

[David Gibson]

On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 10:22:42AM -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 11:18:00AM +1000, David Gibson wrote:
> > > I vote against anything similar to the C preprocessor.
> > 
> > Why?
> 
> It's not nearly as powerful as the semantic approach, and it is

How so?  If anything I think it's more powerful, because the macro
boundaries can be anywhere, not only at the edges of particular
semantic constructs.

> syntactically clumsy (I do *not* want to have to put a backslash at the
> end of every line within a macro, for example).

Avoiding the backslashes everywhere is a reasonable argument though.
That's avoidable without dropping the basic idea of macro expansion,
though.

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