Tag: Why does Java not have macros?

Macro definition are globally. It doesn’t care if you define it in the function or not . The preprocessor will replace the first occurrence of the macro and will go on.

Macro definition are globally. It doesn’t care if you define it in the function or not . The preprocessor will replace the first occurrence of the macro and will go on.

Java itself doesn’t support macros . On the other hand, you could pipe the source code through the C preprocessor (CPP for short) just like the C/C++ compile chain does.

Java doesn’t have a general purpose define preprocessor directive . private static final int PROTEINS = 100; Such declarations would be inlined by the compilers (if the value is a compile-time constant).18 Ara 2009