--- In concatenative@yahoogroups.com, eas lab <lab.eas@...> wrote:
>
> Just to keep the pipes exercised
> [I suspected that I'd been cut-off of cat-list
> [what's happening in the 1st-world/N-hemisphere
> 'for' no cat-list-traffic ?] ]
>
> I'm asking what's Minimac's minimal-syntax ?
>
> I/we don't just go off to httpS on a whim.
> ANNs should contain minimum info to justify
> further effort investment.
>
> How would it:
> remove all sequences of lines,
> starting from <string1> upto <string2> ?
>
> == TIA.

Hi,

Thanks for your questions.

Minimac has almost no syntax, basically a set of special characters that trigger
behaviors (quoting, escaping, naming, compiling, etc...) and a dictionary (i.e.
symbol table) of built-in macros that is extended at runtime with user macro
definitions. See the draft manual for more info:
http://code.google.com/p/minimac/wiki/manual

As to your second question on removing sequences of lines, minimac is a macro
processor similar in purpose to m4, i.e. it expands macro directives contained
in a source file, what you're describing is a job better suited for a stream
editor.

Cheers,
Mark Humphries
http://freshmeat.net/projects/minimac-macro-processor