>>>#DEFINE MACHINE_NAME SYS(0)
>>>#DEFINE CURRENT_DEFAULT_DRIVE SYS(5)
>>>
>>>Uhh, George, think about these for a minute...
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>>What?? Didn't we have a discussion sometime back that defined function calls like these are actually evaluated at run-time not compile time? As a matter of fact, I remember testing something like in a EXE and being quite surprised at this. Or is it something else?
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>Geo,
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>You're not starting that thread back up again are you? < gd&r >. I think the concensus was that it confused the crap out of everyone <s>. I ended up doing this:
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#DEFINE MACHINE_NAME 0
>#DEFINE CURRENT_DEFAULT_DRIVE 5
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>?sys(MACHINE_NAME)
>?sys(CURRENT_DEFAULT_DRIVE)
>Same thing just doesn't
confuse anybody <g>.
No, Roi, I wouldn't dare start that up again.< s > Actually, what you propose is probably a very good idea. Let's assume that the behavior changed and the #DEFINEs became real compile time constants. What would happen to in my example? Code break. Fall down. Go Boom! In your's it wouldn't.
George
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