Donald Kelley wrote:
Hi there,
I'm a lurker. If a conversational language is developed
it should come with a tools to allow conversion to and from
Gcodes. I think that would allow for more support in the long
run and also allow for testing against known working code.
As far as subroutines go.. although I can imagine some
difficulties in integrating them into a system that was not originally
designed to have them, it makes alot of sense to make subroutines
available to the gcode programmer(even if one had to preprocess
the Gcode file to put the subroutines inline). If you went to the
effort to preprocess subroutines, it might make sense to add the
capability to put in count controlled loops and other sundry
flow control structures.
Well, in fact, the C preprocessor should be able to do this. You'd need
to run it
through a renumber program afterwards.
Jon
