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Re: [Cbor] CDDL Module Design

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Wed, 01 July 2020 14:54 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Cbor] CDDL Module Design
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On 2020-07-01, at 05:54, Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> wrote:
> 
> I prefer that the statement not be a pre-processor-like hack.

The C/C++ preprocessor may be considered a hack because it operates at a lexical level.  We should not make that mistake.  Apart from that, it does useful things.

Or, in other words, your hack may be my perfect layering.

I would prefer it if a CDDL compiler (using that word in its english sense) could spit out something that looks like CDDL 1.0 and has the same semantics (well, maybe except for semantic names, which don’t exist in CDDL 1.0).

Grüße, Carsten

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