Hi Jay,
IMHO, defines will offer you a much better handling, in case that more than one developer has to handle code in a bigger project. A 'constant' that you specify in your load or init-event can always be changed by someone who isn't so much involved in your kind of coding. A DEFINE will always be unchangeable during runtime so the newbie to your project won't be able to mess with your 'constant', which might lead to some rather unexpected errors.
Best Regards
-Tom
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
Oh, and BTW: 010101100100011001010000011110000101001001101111011000110110101101110011