Pascal-Chapter Preprocessor

Chapter 27 : Preprocessor

Our ship is made of modules, you can easily attach or remove external modules, check it out.

Instead of writing the LIGO code in a single file, it is possible to split the code into different files or include some external code into our file. The pre-processor is responsible for handling code inclusion. While working with multiple files we may encounter a problem of cyclic inclusion. To prevent such situation some pre-processor commands are available.

  • #if
  • #define
  • #include

⚠️ Notice that all pre-processor command names start with a #.

Include

Pre-processor command #include permits code inclusion. It allows to merge some code into your file. Command #include requires a path to a ligo file.

#include “tzip-12/fa2_interface.religo”

Define

Pre-processor command #define allows to introduce tags.

#define FA2_NFT_TOKEN

Such tags can be used with a conditionnal command.

Conditionnal

Pre-processor commands #if, #else and #endif allow to consider / ignore some part of the file depending on tags. Tags are defined with the #define command.

#if !FA2_NFT_TOKEN

#define FA2_NFT_TOKEN

#include “tzip-12/fa2_interface.religo”

function substr_special (const s: string) : string is
String.sub (0n, 4n, s)

#else

#include “test/fa2_int.religo”

function substr_special (const s: string) : string is
String.sub (0n, 3n, s)

#endif

⚠️ Notice that the conditionnal #if can be used to customize your includes.

⚠️ Notice that this pattern prevents variable or type redefinition in case of cyclic inclusion.

if !X

define X

Your mission

We are implementing a smart contract with a modular approach.

As you can see in our exercise, when the WITH*EXTRA tag is defined then the code in extra.mligo file is included. The module _extra* defines the tag EXTRA and implements a function doSomethingExtra.

We want you to make the code responsive to the tag EXTRA.

1- Modify the function doSomethingInventory in the inventory contract so as to execute doSomethingExtra on the given parameter if the EXTRA tag is defined. Otherwise execute removeFirst on the given parameter.

  • Exercise
  • extra.ligo

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