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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: Conditional Compilation
Date: 2000/09/19
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In article
<7FEFA9E5E3B3C4A5.90418F4BE7D5AE58.48E094CF81EC6BD3@lp.airnews.net>,
  "Kenneth Kueny" <kkuenyx@vctinc.com> wrote:
> Does ADA have an analog to the C language #define, #ifdef constructs

No, Ada does not have conditional compilation. When the language was
being designed, conditional compilation was expressly prohibited (for
very good reason).

There's a good discussion of this in one of our old FAQs at
http://www.adahome.com/FAQ/programming.html#macros . I'd repost it here,
but unfortunately the text is copyrighted. :-(

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