>>Chewing it over, I agree with your sentiments George. Compile time is compile time. I just tested #DEFINE k_FILE File('test.tmp') and it too evaluates at run time. I would expect a constant - and I don't think I'll start taking "advantage" of this behaviour, because, to me, it's counter intuitive, confusing, and they might "fix" it at some future date.
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>Hi David,
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>I agree totally.

What is confusing? It #defines in foxpro work just like they do in all of the other languages that use them (with the exception of case insensitivity). It is just compile time macro expansion. I would not worry about the behavior changing, it is standard now.

I just wish that the #ifdef, etc. worked in the header files and that parameter passing (eg. #define MAX(a,b) iif(a>b,a,b)) was supported.