Why we should use Macros if we have function Module

Why we should use Macros if we have function Module and what is the Advantage of Macros than function Module
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Edited by: kishan P on Oct 7, 2010 2:22 PM

Put it this way... if you have blueprints for a car you wouldn't want to produce only one car, would you? You would want to produce as many as needed. In another example, you don't want to be able to use only 1 window in Windows. Each window has common features but have different values. That's the purpose of non-static entities
However, there are instances that you want to have only one value for something. That's when you use static entities.
Get it? =)

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