Re: macros status report

[Ben Pfaff]

I think macros are now feature complete. They pass all the tests that I've
devised so far. I am still working on them because they still need
polishing: the code is not as clean as I'd like and the error messages
that they produce are not helpful enough. What I have now is on
my dev7 branch:
https://pintos-os.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=pspp;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/dev7

On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 11:08 AM Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu> wrote:
>
> I'm writing this up in case anyone is interested.
>
> A while ago, I planned to start work on CTABLES. I asked for example uses
> and only got back a few of them, from just one person I think. All of those
> examples also used the SPSS macro facility (the DEFINE command), so I
> decided to implement that first.
>
> I've spent considerable effort on that now. Basic macros  now work in my
> development branch at
> https://pintos-os.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=pspp;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/dev6
> I spent most of yesterday writing documentation for it. This involved a lot
> of careful reading and research, because there is a terrible amount of
> vagueness and ambiguity in the SPSS documentation in this area. I still
> have a lot of documentation and code to write, but there's progress.
>
> Ben