RE: Preprocessor functionality equivalent ideas needed

[Lionel.DRAGHI@fr.thalesgroup.com]

| -----Message d'origine-----
| De: Marin David Condic [mailto:nobody@noplace.com]
| This is especially 
| true where I might need to keep code portable between two different 
| compilers. Also its a big problem when what needs to be 
| different is in 
| the *specification* of something. (Yes, I know, "One more layer of 
| indirection...." can go fix it - but why should it be so hard?)

The whole point is what is harder, pre-processing or redesign?
I don't think there is a unique generic answer, but I observe that
pre-processing is often choosen because it's easier to settle down in the
*short term* than some redesign.  

-- 
Lionel Draghi