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Re: Where is igawk and why doesn't @include replicate this feature?
On 2019-09-10 23:54, Troy Kenah wrote:
Hi All,
I have a large number of scripts that were using the the igawk script,
however I have updated my gawk to a newer release that has
obsoleted/removed the igawk script.
Gawk's build system stopped installing igawk over five years ago:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gawk.git/commit/?id=577ece63770a6c4b5ad00d6998127fb7e85b86b9
I used to embed @include junk.awk statements to reduce repetitive code
but
this no longer works. These were files were not functions, simply code
snippets; this is the type of error I am now seeing:
Clearly, the script is not exactly obsolete, since the @include facility
in
Gawk seems only to work with syntactically complete units, whereas
igawk performs blind textual inclusion.
If I were you, I'd just bring the igawk script into my code base and
continue that way. It's a tiny script that is licensed as
public domain; it doesn't carry much "technical debt" or licensing
debt.
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