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>No go, Craig. You can't #define function names, AFAIK. I've tried your example, and tried
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> #define myfunc(a,b) abs(a+b)
> ?myfunc(1,2)
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>But it displays several very imaginative error messages, depending on the way you try to fool it - and still doesn't go. Clipper had something like this, and though it would make for more unreadable code and a more complicated compiler, I'd still like to have it.
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>You can still
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>#define ConfigFile sys(2019)
>#define PushText Fwrite(fHandle,
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>and then do
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>modi comm ConfigFile
>fHandle=fcreate("whatever.txt")
>PushText "Hello, world")
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>...and greatly reduce the typing efforts and readability :)


Hmm...ok...it was just a thought. I'll pass on the original request to Microsoft.