&MESSAGE preprocessor directive

Displays a message at compile time in the Compiler Messages dialog box.

Syntax

&MESSAGE text-string

text-string

A string of characters, preprocessor name references, named include file arguments, or any combination of these that results in a character string to display. The text-string argument does not need to be quoted.

Example

This is a possible compile-time message directive:

&MESSAGE Compiling the {&FILE-NAME} file.
. . . 

If this fragment appears in a procedure file, cmessage.p, compiling this file with the COMPILE statement causes the following message to be included with the compiler messages:

Compiling the cmessage.p file.

See also

{ } Preprocessor name reference