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From: shap@sequent.UUCP (Shap Shapiro)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: What is a UIL pre-compiler?
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Date: 2 Aug 90 16:46:15 GMT
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>   In article <130@slovax.WA.COM> larry1@slovax.WA.COM (larry1) writes:
>   >anyone explain to me what a UIL pre-compiler is/does? A
>
>   I don't know for sure, but two things come to mind.  One is that at 1.1
>   there should be available a meta-language for describing new widgets for
>   UIL.  The more likely explanation though is that someone has written
>   a preprocessor for UIL to hide the syntax from the user.  I know that
>   was *my* first thought when I saw UIL.

I think that your first guess is the correct one. There is no something called
the "Widget Meta Language" (aka WML) which is used by the UIL pre-compiler to
actually build the UIL compiler.


					Shap


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