Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!nih-csl!lhc!ncifcrf!haven!purdue!bu.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!portal!cup.portal.com!Invader From: Invader@cup.portal.com (Michael K Donegan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: Think C Preprocessor Question Message-ID: <35247@cup.portal.com> Date: 25 Oct 90 07:16:36 GMT References: <13065@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> <1990Oct24.223243.12287@athena.mit.edu> Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 10 Actually the preprocessor does do calculations, but not any that will help you. For example, if you said #if baz == 20 blah #endif the right thing would happen. Calls for a built-in 'valof' operator of some kind. mkd