Re: do you use the pre-processor?

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Large projects really need a way to include and exclude code at compile 
time.  A _much_ cleaner solution would be to have a compiler that can 
optimize on preprocessor defined boolean tokens which are constant and not 
part of the chunks namespace.  If the token is false then the compiler 
would optimize the chunk away.

Something like 

$define debugging true

function test(x)
  if debugging then
    if type(x) ~= 'table' then
       RuntimeError('x is not a table')
    end
  end
  print(x.name)
end

Having only one such token to set would cover 90% of the cases.

Russ