Re: ANDing and ORing conditional compilation directives

On 19/07/2008, at 10:32 AM, Rory Hewitt wrote:

Ah yes - you *can* indent, but only if you're indenting within / free and
/end-free. However, there's nothing to stop you putting /FREE and / END-FREE
round your /COPY statements, whether they're in the middle of your D-spec or
whatever. Now this is only, obviously, of use if you're going to do a bunch
of conditional-compilation statements on their own and then some simple ones
later, but this would work:

Cunning! I don't recall ever putting directives inside /FREE and /END- FREE blocks. Since all of my includes are definitions I list them amongst the D-specs. It wouldn't have occurred to me to use /FREE in the D-specs. What a strange person you must be :)

It's really ugly, but of course, you could stick it all in a copybook :-)

Yes, I think even uglier than my alternative. I don't see any advantage to your approach. The additional condition testing and setting doesn't reduce the number of duplicated lines. Thanks for helping anyway.

BTW, I assume this is just an example, because the above version could be
massively simplified - if X is ever defined, doStuff is function4 etc.

It was just an example and the last pair of tests resulting in function4 should have resulted in function5.


Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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