> -----Original Message-----
> From: David O'Toole [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Probably. I think it was Bjarne Stroustrup who said
> > > something along the
> > > lines of "Every use of a define is an instance of a programmer not
> > > programming correctly." But I was just wondering if it was some
> > > portability thing or something.
> >
> > I think the basic idea is not to use preprocessor for
> programming...
>
> Did Bjarne say that before or after he invented templates? :-)
:-) I have exactly the same problem with templates, it pretends to be
dynamic while it's just statically generated (=similar to preprocessor,
which I guess is your point)
erik
