I am happy (or ashamed :)) to announce version 0.19 of webc.
This version defines a new directive:
	#callable function
This indicates that anyplace webc sees:
	blah blah blah function(text) blah blah blah
that the named function is called from the Perl code.  Thus it
is a good idea to use the #localcode directive to load additional
code into the compiler.  The function(text) is replaced with
whatever the named function returns.

An example use of this capability is to define a function which
takes a person's name and shortens it to just the first name
followed by the first initial of the last name.

I can create a file named name.pl with the following contents:
    sub Name
	{
	my($name) = @_;

	$name =~ s/(\S)\S*$/$1/;
	return $name;
	}

    1;

Then in my webc source, I have the following:
    #localcode name.pl

    The following people participated in the program:
    	Name(Dave Regan), Name(John Sechrest), Name(Joe Random)

The output for this would be:
    The following people participated in the program:
    	Dave R, John S, Joe R


Note that this (like most of webc) is a hack based upon need.
Because functions are introduced with the #callable directive,
this should not break any existing applications.

The program can be found at:
	http://www.ao.com/~regan/Webc/webc
with the home page at:
	http://www.ao.com/~regan/Webc
An entire distribution (including html documentation, small
examples, etc.) is at:
	http://www.ao.com/~regan/Webc/webc.tar.gz

Feel free to snarf a copy and install it in the typical way on
your site.

			Dave Regan
			regan@ao.com