From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2003-01-24T04:04:05+09:00
Subject: Re: emulating C preprocessor's #if

Yuri Leikind wrote:

> Perhaps I might have misunderstood the main point of your letter, but I
> think Ruby is dynamic enough to do what you want without any other
> changes in the core language:

And just to clarify: I'm not suggesting any changes at all. I'm using 
ruby's dynamism and string handling features to emulate a (rather ugly) 
feature of C.

I don't advocate widespread use of this. Factoring is better if you can 
do it elegantly.