On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 7:56 PM, Brandon Allbery <allber...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 7:40 PM, Donn Cave <d...@avvanta.com> wrote:
>
>> But fatal if compilation is conditional on something that affects the
>> ability to type check, am I right?  Such as different compilers or
>> versions of same compiler.
>>
>
> Not per the abstract (paper itself seems to be paywalled). They had an
> earlier work with that issue, the linked one is about how to be robust in
> the face of such conditionals.
>

There's also the question about handling changes in syntax, e.g. LambdaCase
throws parse errors in older compilers.

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