How to increment a value using a C-Preprocessor?

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Published on 2010-05-24T12:11:15Z Indexed on 2010/05/24 14:31 UTC
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Example: I try to do this:

static NSInteger stepNum = 1;
#define METHODNAME(i) -(void)step##i
#define STEP METHODNAME(stepNum++)

@implementation Test

STEP {
    // do stuff...

    [self nextFrame:@selector(step2) afterDelay:1]; 
}

STEP {
    // do stuff...

    [self nextFrame:@selector(step3) afterDelay:1]; 
}

STEP {
    // do stuff...

    [self nextFrame:@selector(step4) afterDelay:1]; 
}

// ...

When building, Xcode complains that it can't increment stepNum. This seems logical to me, because at this time the code is not "alive" and this pre-processing substitution stuff happens before actually compiling the source code. Is there another way I could have an variable be incremented on every usage of STEP macro, the easy way?

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