DEFINE

Declares a compilation variable to be used in ISO2002 conditional compilation.

Syntax:

>>---DEFINE-define-name-.-(numeric-lit)--.----><
                        +-(true)---------+
                        +-(false)--------+
                        +-"alphanum-lit"-+

Parameters:

Parameter	Definition
`define-name`	The name of a compilation variable
`numeric-lit`	A numeric literal; the assigned value must be an integer
`true`	Equivalent of Boolean literal B'1'
`false`	Equivalent of Boolean literal B'0'
`alphanum-lit`	An alphanumeric literal

Properties:

Default:	Not set
Phase:	Syntax check
$SET:	Any

Comments:

If a true or false parameter is specified, the category is Boolean; otherwise parentheses indicate a category of numeric, and quotation marks indicate a category of alphanumeric.

To define several compilation variables, use the DEFINE option repeatedly (that is, one compilation variable per DEFINE directive).

Values assigned to compilation variables by this option need to be activated in the source code, using the ISO2002 conditional compilation syntax >>DEFINE define-name AS PARAMETER; see ISO2002 Conditional Compilation for more details.