blatte(1)
NAME
blatte - compile a Blatte program into Perl
SYNOPSIS
blatte [--sparse] file1.blt file2.blt ... fileN.blt
DESCRIPTION
Converts the Blatte code in each given file to Perl, writ
ing the result to a new file with a .pl extension. Will
not overwrite existing files.
Each file gets a short header that imports that Blatte and
Blatte::Builtins modules and defines two functions, x and
y.
In the normal mode, as each converted Blatte expression is
written to the output file, the corresponding Perl code is
passed as an argument to the x function (which, when
called, simply prints its argument -- after flattening
[see Blatte(3)]).
If --sparse is given, then only Blatte expressions begin
ning with a Blatte metacharacter ({, and }, except that
only the first two are used to begin expressions) are
passed to x. All text in between such expressions is
passed as a single string to y (which, when called, also
prints its argument, but this time without any need for
flattening).
Each call to x in the output file is preceded by a Perl
comment describing the Blatte source that produced the
Perl translation that follows.