OpenEuphoria

Re: preprocessor

• Posted by Tone Škoda <tskoda at email.si> Oct 27, 2004
• 586 views

Robert Craig wrote:
> The new 2.5 Translator will completely remove a block of code such as:
> }}}
<eucode>
> if expr then
>     ...
>     -- lots of statements
>     ...
> end if
> </eucode>
{{{

> whenever it can see at compile-time that 
> expr always evaluates to 0 (FALSE).

That looks good, I'll use it.

I have a question:

I use this:

integer Debug
Debug = true

global procedure assert (integer be_true)
    if Debug then
	    if be_true = false then
                ... tell user assert was called ...
	    end if
    end if
end procedure

I would prefer to use

assert (length (smth) > length (smth_else))

than

if Debug then
	assert (length (smth) > length (smth_else))
end if

So, will translator also remove calls to routines which do nothing, like
assert() in non-debug mode? assert's argument also slows things down because it
has to be evaluated.