Unofficial BlitzBasic Preprocessor Release 5.0

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Hi,
I have just released version 5.0 of The Unofficial BlitzBasic Preprocessor. This is mostly a tidyup release, with one or two bugfixes. The changes are:

/*
* Changes Since 4.0
* #Define can now redefine a definition, giving it a new replace value
* #UnDefine added
* #Define now defines as own name to avoid replacing with blank (eg #Define Yes will define Yes as Yes)
* Option Explicit and code profiling can now coexist
* #CompilerError for a Compile Time error (similar to RuntimeError but not)
*/

Example of the new features:

#Define yes no
Variable$ = "yes"
#Define yes
RuntimeError "yes is defined as yes not " + Variable$ + "?"
#UnDefine yes

#IfDef yes
	#CompilerError "Your programming is crap, Michael!"
#EndIf

You can grab it from the Unofficial BlitzBasic Preprocessor site.

Michael Reitzenstein

Version 6.0 is coming out very soon, now with #ProfileNoFunctions, #ProfileSection [Section] and #EndProfileSection.

I may see fit to put watching on variables. I am also planning to put blocks in for this version. For example;

#IfNDef DEBUG
#BlockStartsWith DebugLog
#EndIf

#IfNDef TIMING
#BlockContains MilliSecs
#EndIf

Blocked lines will be thrown out by the preprocessor at preprocess time.

Michael Reitzenstein

#ForceProfile [Function] added