On Sat, 2004-04-17 at 03:27, Kenneth Knowles wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 06:17:08PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
> > Another reason why having #ifdef's would be useful ...
> > 
> > Rich.
> 
> Conditional compilation... I've mulled this over a bit, anyone want to chat
> about it?

camlp4 has conditional compilation.. and lots more :D
but it only works with Ocaml ..

In general the answer is the same as I keep giving:
if you have a general purpose language and use it
as a code generator, the very notion of 'conditional
compilation' as some kind of special feature makes
you roll on the floor laughing.

Its a programming language, of course it has
conditionals!

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