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https://github.com/betaveros/cpp2

C Plus Plus Competitive Programming Preprocessor
https://github.com/betaveros/cpp2

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C Plus Plus Competitive Programming Preprocessor

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# CPP^2



(C Plus Plus Competitive Programming Preprocessor)



Sick of all of this `FOR(i,0,n)` nonsense and `scand(x,y,z,w)` and that fifty-line sequence of `#include`s and debug macros at the front of every one of your programs?



I was too, so I wrote this.



Now, just write

```

vector int v;

int main() {

    s! int n;

    sn! v, n;

    sort! v;

    for i to n {

        int y <~ v;

        pn! y;

    }

}

```

and automatically get

```cpp

#include 

#include 

#include 

using namespace std;

vector v;

int main() {

    int n; scanf("%d", &n);

    for (int _t0 = n; _t0; --_t0) { int _t1; scanf("%d", &_t1); v.push_back(_t1); }

    sort(v.begin(), v.end());

    for (int i = 1; i <= n; ++i){

        int y = v.back(); v.pop_back();

        printf("%d\n", y);

    }

}

```



## FAQ (Fictionally Asked Questions)



### Why don't you just learn a new language?



I do and I have. I love learning languages. But until USACO, TopCoder, and a large number of online judges start accepting solutions in Haskell or D, there doesn't seem to be any alternative.



(Besides, which of these languages has a built-in dedicated operator for adding two numbers and taking the result modulo 1000000007?)



### Why don't you write a complete language that compiles into C++?



I considered that, but ultimately decided the effort wouldn't be worth it. C++ has a huge grammar and an amazing number of features that are useful in 10% or 1% of problems and there's no way I'm writing code to parse all of them to spit it out again.



### What's with the weird operator symbols?



The min, max, minify, and maxify operators (``, `>?`, `=`, `>?=`) are taken from LiveScript.



The `(push|pop)_(front|back)` operators (`~=`, `<~`, `~~=`, `<~~`) are mostly my own invention. I wanted to take some Scala-inspired operators (`:+=` and derivatives, with the mnemonic the COLon is on the COLlection side) but it turns out using the colon screws with C indentation, so I took the path of least resistance and chose something else. `~=` is the operator as it's used in D, as `push_back`. LiveScript has curly arrows for a completely different purpose, but at least that justifies that it looks like an arrow.



### Why doesn't sugary `for` cache the range it iterates over in some temporary variable? That's expensive.



I wanted it to translate to natural C++ and not break any obfuscation rules. When you need to avoid recomputing something expensive, stash it in a local variable.



### The macros / the special operators / the type inference / ALL the things are broken!



That's not a question, but I am not surprised because it's a huge collection of hacks. Still, it works 90% of the time and you can (in theory) always lapse into vanilla C++.



The sugar operators are entirely the same precedence as assignment operators and entirely right-associative because parsing is hard. You shouldn't need to chain too many sugar operators anyway. If you do, adding parentheses helps.



There is no type inference system. What I call the *type-guessing* system is one of the hackiest things ever. If you stash your expression in a local variable with a declared type, you can help the guesser out.