[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: Anansi 0.4.2 (literate programming pre-processor)

[John Millikin]

Anansi is a preprocessor for literate programs, in the model of NoWeb
or nuweb. Literate programming allows both computer code and
documentation to be generated from a single unified source.

Home page: https://john-millikin.com/software/anansi/
Hackage: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/anansi-0.4.2

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This release has a couple cool new features, suggested by Dirk Laurie.

Markdown loom
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Markdown, a lightweight markup language similar to ReStructuredText,
is used often on web forums. Use [[ :loom anansi.markdown ]] in your
documents to enable.

User-defined line pragmas
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Users can now add, modify, and disable line pragmas in tangled output
based on file extension. This makes it much easier to combine code and
data in a single source file. By default, line pragmas are enabled for
the C, C++, C#, Haskell, Perl, and Go languages.

Customizing the pragma format is easy. Use the ${line}, ${path}, and
${quoted-path} substitutions in an :option. This example code will
insert comments into tangled Python code:

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:# Insert comments into any tangled output file with a name ending in ".py"
:option anansi.line-pragma-py=# Generated from ${path} line ${line}
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To disable line pragmas for a particular file type, just set its
pragma format to an empty string:
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:option anansi.line-pragma-pl=
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