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In article <40sj1n$bd4@lemon.easynet.co.uk> garyl@byc.easynet.co.uk (21st century caffeine boy ) writes:

> >#defines are still useful in C++, though not as much.
> If you're crap, yes.

That's unfair.  I see three uses for #define in C: defining constants,
defining macros, and setting flags for conditional compilation.  C++
has largely eliminated the first two uses, but the third remains.
People still need to write code that will compile on multiple
platforms, and sometimes that still requires #ifdef.  

I'd like to see the preprocessor go away: I'd like to see #include
replaced by a proper modules system, and #define disappear
entirely.  It's not quite possible, though.  #ifdef is still necesary,
and while #ifdef is still in the language #define will have to stay too.
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