Re: Booch: iterator invalidation

["Randy Brukardt" <randy@rrsoftware.com>]

Jeffrey Creem wrote in message ...
>Usually no need to resort to #ifdef preprocessor stuff.. Just make a
generic formal
>that says error checking enabled. Generic actual parameter is a
>constant/static then any decent compiler will optimize out any of the
actual
>checks in the object code and you get the same effect as the #ifdefs
without
>the lack of portability.


That won't work for a compiler which does generic sharing of
implementations. In that case, the code would remain all of the time.
(This is true of Janus/Ada and the ICC compiler.)

But why make it a parameter? Just make in a constant in the body of the
source code, and change it as needed.

              Randy.