Re: #defines in 4gl

In article <1ttg96INNiat@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> archer!ciesla@stairs.att.com writes: } For years, I've wished 4GL had a feature that would allow the } use of #define, #ifdef, #else, #include, . . . } } Has anyone figured out a way to do this in spite of Informix? And you folks } at Informix: Why has this feature never been supported in the language? } Some people run their code through the C pre-processor. I always used a product (which Informix never officially supported) called "m4gl". It allowed me to have lines like: !include !define !ifdef !else !end if DAS -- David Snyder @ Snide Computer Services - Folcroft, PA Current Release is db4glgen-3.12 UUCP: ..!uunet!das13!dave INTERNET: dave.snyder@snide.com