Specman: What is the difference between "define" and "#define"?

Question

What is the difference between define with and without hash mark? Thank you for your help

Answer 1

Assuming you refer to the simple C-like preprocessor statements of the form #definenamevalue (and not to define as or define as computed macros), there is no difference at all. The # in this syntax was supposed to be mandatory, but for historical and backward compatibility reasons it was left optional.