Quote needed: Preprocessor usage is bad OO practice

Question

I believe, that the usage of preprocessor directives like #if UsingNetwork is bad OO practice - other coworkers do not. I think, when using an IoC container (e.

Answer 1

Preprocessor code injection is to the compiler what triggers are to the database. And it's pretty easy to find such assertions about triggers.

I mainly think of #define being used to inline a short expression because it saves the overhead of a function call. In other words, it's premature optimization.