This is only part of the solution, we still need to update joy.h and
KEYWORDS.txt when defs.txt changes, and we need to handle names that
have non-C-identifier characters in them.
But it's a start...
There are things to like about this implementation and things to
dislike.
Things to like:
- It works.
- The defs are baked into the wordlist.
Cons:
- The def bodies are built at start time by parsing strings. it would
be nice to somehow generate initializer literals if possible. But
would that mess up the garbage collector?
- It requires manual labor to update the defs when defs.txt changes. It
would be nice to have a solution that *make* can use.
Simon Forman