Crate seq_macro

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Imagine for-loops in a macro

This crate provides a seq! macro to repeat a fragment of source code and substitute into each repetition a sequential numeric counter.

use seq_macro::seq;

fn main() {
    let tuple = (1000, 100, 10);
    let mut sum = 0;

    // Expands to:
    //
    //     sum += tuple.0;
    //     sum += tuple.1;
    //     sum += tuple.2;
    //
    // This cannot be written using an ordinary for-loop because elements of
    // a tuple can only be accessed by their integer literal index, not by a
    // variable.
    seq!(N in 0..=2 {
        sum += tuple.N;
    });

    assert_eq!(sum, 1110);
}

If the input tokens contain a section surrounded by #( … )* then only that part is repeated.
The numeric counter can be pasted onto the end of some prefix to form sequential identifiers.

use seq_macro::seq;

seq!(N in 64..=127 {
    #[derive(Debug)]
    enum Demo {
        // Expands to Variant64, Variant65, ...
        #(
            Variant~N,
        )*
    }
});

fn main() {
    assert_eq!("Variant99", format!("{:?}", Demo::Variant99));
}

Byte and character ranges are supported: b'a'..=b'z', 'a'..='z'.
If the range bounds are written in binary, octal, hex, or with zero padding, those features are preserved in any generated tokens.

use seq_macro::seq;

seq!(P in 0x000..=0x00F {
    // expands to structs Pin000, ..., Pin009, Pin00A, ..., Pin00F
    struct Pin~P;
});

Macros

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