Re: wishes for next Lout

[Ian Jackson]

basile starynkevitch writes ("wishes for next Lout"):
> * perhaps on Unix or Posix systems Lout could read a document from a
> Unix pipe. This essentially means having a @Pinclude primitive,
> working like @Include, except that it calls popen(3) and pclose(3)
> instead of fopen(3) and fclose(3). Of course this supposes the popen(3)
> interface.

The other suggestions are reasonable, but please don't do this.

Doing so would mean that you'd have to be very careful when running
other people's documents through lout.

Why not have the data you want to include in a file and use `make' to
keep it up to date ?  That'd mean less processing, too.

Ian.