>>Since my name has been invoked...I pointed it out because of the extra overhead that the module would incur. If a routine, especially one involving a large number of iterations, repeatly referenced the value,it could improve performance.< s >
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>Really? It's a pre-processor directive. The actual value should just get compiled into the program, and no look-up should be involved. Thanks, George, I was hoping to spend my morning doing something productive, but now I have some benchmarking to do. :-)

Apparently so, Mike. A while back, some of us did some tests, and they revealed that any #DEFINE (I keep wanting to refer to it as a symbolic constant< g >) involving a function is evaluated at run-time. The theory (at least mine) is that the compiler inserts the function reference wherever the symbol appears.