On Wed, 20 Jun 2018, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
The other alternative would be break the compiler in such a way that it
was usable from a standard makefile, but since there isn't separate
compilation of definition and implementation parts this would probably
impact on type safety. I believe that this too has been debated in the
past, and has attracted even less enthusiasm than a hook for an extrnal
preprocessor preprocessor.
Nothing stops people from preprocessing their code if they need really
advanced preprocessing: The toolchain can handle it already.
But there is no need to integrate it in the compiler and thus needlessly
complicating it even more. The consequences of such a step are far-reaching.
And till now, no-one has presented the really pressing use cases that would
warrant such a step.
Michael.
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