Re: #defines in 4gl

Posted in 1993

Van Bagnol — Wed, 26 May 1993 17:22:02 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Neil S. Briscoe (neil@salmon.demon.co.uk) wrote: : At present, anyone who wants to do this uses the m4 macro package. Would there be interference between m4's define(...) construct and 4GL's DEFINE... statement? At our site we don't uppercase keywords or code. I had once considered using m4 but due to the above potential conflict didn't pursue it seriously. Hmm...what if the following form were used: define(var, define) define(FOOSIZE, 64) ... var foo[FOOSIZE], bar smallint # kinda Pascal-like Is a workaround like this necessary? Van