[fpc-devel] RFC: changing conditional compilation

[Jonas Maebe]

On 09 Feb 2010, at 00:01, Flávio Etrusco wrote:

> Now there's Macros, but they
> wouldn't solve the problem either, unless you'd use some crazy scheme
> with "$if declared" or something AFAICS.
> What I wished is to change (or add a directive to change) the way
> $ifdef/ifndef work, enforcing that symbols are always declared, like
> it was a boolean. So one would have to use e.g. {$define EnableFeature
> false} to "undefine" it, otherwise conditionals would fail.

As far as I know, that's how macros behave.

E.g.:

{$macro on}

{$define xxx:=1}

{$if xxx}
begin
end.
{$endif}

If you undefine "xxx", you'll get a compile time error.

Downside: they don't work with booleans for some reason, only with integers...


Jonas