>>>>I take it back - I pasted the code in, and it worked for me
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>>>I think, it's actually a good idea to stay away of reserved words if possible.
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>>>But in this particular case Sergey just nailed the problem with his ingenuity. I put #define dDOB in a different method of that class and immediatelly got this error.
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>>"Ingenuity"??? I think you meant "Geniality"
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>Went to the dictionary, you are right, ingenuity has a meaning I did not know. sorry. Actually, the meaning I knew is obsolete, so you are even more right!

You made me doubt, BTW. Give me a link to the dictionary, please.