Using macros to declare classes?!

[SatsumaBenji]

Ok this is a really interesting question that could be rather useful in the right situations but I'm not sure if it's possible.
I've been doing a little reading on macros for something else when I came across "stringification". The tutorial says that if I define a macro to a certain value or string I can convert this macro to what it defines by using the '#'.

i.e.

#define MAC "macroString"
cout << "Macro MAC contains: " << #MAC << endl; 

macroString

So... Is it possible to create classes using a the definition of the macro to setup the class name?
i.e.

#define MAC "Object"
class #MAC{
  //class definition
}

Would this work (if it works at all) with the same functionality as:

class Object{
  //class definition
}

[Computergeek01]

The #define macro is basically a precompiler time find and replace operation. There's not too much about it that cool.

[ResidentBiscuit]

How would you handle object creation? Or constructors?

[Disch]

You mean for some kind of reflection?

There wouldn't be much point to it. Closest you can do is this:

#define CLASSNAME MyClass
#define CLASSNAMESTRING #CLASSNAME // not sure if this would even work

class CLASSNAME
{
//...
};

But as you can see that's pointless, because it has the same effects as this:

const char* ClassNameString = "MyClass";
class MyClass
{
//...
};