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Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 14:13:02 -0500
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Jeffrey Carter wrote:
> Yes. Don't use preprocessing.

Yes, especially in the way he's proposing.
Leaving little #ifdefs everywhere is bad practice even
in languages which allow it.

> It sounds as if you have a good use for a variant record:

The OP is running two separate programs. There should be a
better solution than forcing him to make runtime tests for
something which is static.

A description of the data structure and its varieties is
needed before we can offer really sage advice.