[erlang-questions] macro in include definition - can't

[Wes James]

Good point.

-wes

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Ahmed Omar <spawn.think@REDACTED> wrote:
> But why are you doing it that way?
> Why not just in pcount.hrl write
> include("/some/path/some.hrl").
>
> and in you pcount.erl just
> -include("pcount.hrl").
>
>
> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 4:12 PM, Wes James <comptekki@REDACTED> wrote:
>>
>> oops, clicked send to soon:
>>
>> I have pcount.erl and pcount.hrl
>>
>> here is part of pcount.hrl
>>
>> -define(SOME, "/some/path/some.hrl").
>>
>> in pcount.erl
>>
>> -include("pcount.hrl").
>> -include(?SOME).
>>
>> erlc pcount.erl
>> ./pcount.erl:10: badly formed 'include'
>>
>> with
>>
>> -include("?SOME").
>>
>> I get:
>>
>> erlc pcount.erl
>> ./pcount.erl:10: badly formed 'include'
>>
>> So there doesn't seem to be a way of doing nested macros.
>>
>> thx,
>>
>> -wes
>> On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Ahmed Omar <spawn.think@REDACTED> wrote:
>> > I'm not sure i understand what u r trying to do exactly. but are u
>> > trying to
>> > do
>> > -define(FILE, "somepath").
>> > in some.hrl?
>> > cause ?FILE is a predefined macro that is expanded to the name of the
>> > current module, you can't redefine it.
>> >
>> > On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:36 PM, Wes James <comptekki@REDACTED> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I was trying to do something like this:
>> >>
>> >> -include("some.hrl").
>> >> -include(?FILE).
>> >>
>> >> Where FILE is defined in some.hrl, but found that can't be done.   I
>> >> was trying to define a path to a hrl file without having it show in
>> >> the actual file on github.  I guess the way to do this is with an
>> >> environment variable, if I'm worried about it.
>> >>
>> >> I found info on macros in "The Preprocessor" page on erlang.org
>> >>
>> >> http://www.erlang.org/doc/reference_manual/macros.html
>> >>
>> >> -wes
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