On Fri, 13 May 2011, Jonas Maebe wrote:
On 13 May 2011, at 13:43, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
If I had my way, I would remove the existing ones alltogether.
The one use case they have in FPC sources could easily be remedied.
They were introduced for Mac Pascal compiler compatibility, and are used
quite regularly in that context via command line definitions such as
-dSomeMacro:=123
The Mac OS X universal interfaces would also need quite some rewriting to
remove all macro usage. While most could probably be changed into either
conditional defines or constants, I'm not certain whether that would work for
all of them.
I'm sorry, I was not aware they were used for the Mac Pascal dialect.
(not having a Mac is my only excuse for not looking into that ;) )
In each case, my case remains: I don't consider them good practise,
and certainly wouldn't want to encourage their use by 'improving' them.
Michael.
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