[fpc-pascal] Using constants instead of comments

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

On 18/04/18 12:15, wkitty42 at windstream.net wrote:
> On 04/17/2018 11:06 PM, James Richters wrote:> I have a whole section of 
> diagnostic writeln's in a program, and it's tedious to comment them all 
> out/in as needed.   I'm curious if doing something like
> 
> what's wrong with traditional IFDEF?? use something like this...
> {$IFDEF DEBUG}writeln ('blahblahblah');writeln 
> (LOGFILE,'blahblahblah');flush (LOGFILE);{$ENDIF}
> 
> then you simply create the DEBUG define...
> -DDEBUG
> if you don't want it, leave it out and none of the bracketd code is even 
> included...

I agree. Another possibility is something like

{$if declared(customDebugWrite) }
   customDebugWrite(...);
{$endif declared()         }

so if customDebugWrite() isn't present in the program during compilation 
(commented out, or the entire unit containing it omitted) no attempt 
will be made to call it.

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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