Thread: What is the diff between if and #if?

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    Question What is the diff between if and #if?

    Can anyone expalin to me better "What is the diff between if and #if?" I thought i read that maybe its because #if can only be used with constant conditions, is that correct. Someone told me that #if is faster and improves program readability than if does but connot be nested, is that true?
    Some please enlighten me?

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    if is a part of the c language. #if is a part of the c preprocessor language.

    i've noticed a pattern of you starting threads asking the difference between things that aren't very related to eachother.
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    i've noticed a pattern of you starting threads asking the difference between things that aren't very related to eachother
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    #if is what we call a preprocessor directive...for more information try here.

    if is simply a C/C++ (and Java) keyword - a reserved word in the C language that cannot be used as a variable name. Your compiler recognises if as a conditional statement.

    >> I thought i read that maybe its because #if can only be used with constant conditions, is that correct<<

    Yes, that is correct.

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    Can anyone expalin to me better "What is the diff between if and #if?"
    "if" is a statement-- part of the defined c language. "#if" is also called a compiler directive -- it is used not for code, but to tell the compiler to do something during compilation.
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    Whats Up!

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