[Cocci] Replacing one variable name with another

[Nikolaus@rath.org (Nikolaus Rath)]

On Oct 05 2016, SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>> 2. ..and how would I go about if instead of the type, I want to replace
>>    a variable name? (my_type *ptr --> my_type *pointer).
>
> Would you like to try another small SmPL script out like the following?
>
>
> @name_replacement@
> @@
>  my_type *
> -ptr
> +pointer
>  ;

I could try it, but I'm actually more interested in understanding how
this works (I already solved my primariy problem). Could you explain
this script a bit more? What exactly does "@name_replacement@" mean?
Does it the interpretation of "my_type *" further down?


> How will your software development experiments evolve for the desired
> application of the semantic patch language?

Aeh, sorry, I don't understand the question.


Best,
-Nikolaus

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