Defining my own preprocessor directives in F#

Question

I have an F# script that I intend to use both at home and at work. The script shall work similarly in both places, yet, I have a set of issues to deal with at work (mostly regarding firewalls and http proxies) so I'd like to run my script in a slightly different way in one case and in the other. I imagine that ideally I'd set a special flag (directive) at the FSI level, so I could have `#if AT_WORK` to deal with some sharp corner cases. How to accomplish this?

Accepted Answer

Yes, you can define your own symbols to use with conditional compilation, when you call FSI do it like this:

```
Fsi.exe --define:AT_WORK yourScript.fsx
```

See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd233172.aspx

Defining my own preprocessor directives in F#

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