Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Benjamin Franksen <[email protected]> · Thu, 22 Aug 2013 16:00:57 +0200

We recently compiled msi (a patched version but that is not the point here)
with R3.14.12.2 and stumbled over the "recursive" and "undefined" keywords
that the macLib seems to insert when expanding, respectively, recursive or
undefined macros. I remembered this being talked about on tech-talk at one
time but I could not find the thread in the archives. So I tried to find
documentation about this somewhere. I looked into the Application Developer's
Guide, the release notes, and the file macLibREADME in the sources, all to no
avail. We even looked at the changeset comments using the bazaar web interface
(3.14 branch). It appears this change was introduced along with the
introduction of scoping in the macLib, but the comment did not say so.

Anyway, the main intent of this message is not to complain, but rather to
(politely) request that some documentation for the macLib is added somewhere,
ideally in the Application Developer's Guide (which already contains a section
on the macLib but only lists the exported procedures). The macLibREADME is
probably a good starting point, but it would need to be updated to include the
latest changes.

Thanks
Ben
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Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System