Re: CPP is not part of Haskell

[Fergus Henderson]

On 04-Oct-1999, George Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> (b) a type of compile-time if statement which will branch on simple
> arithmetic and boolean expressions in constant values and constants,
> which doesn't typecheck the branch which isn't taken.  For example,
> this is what Java provides and I think it's not too bad.

Are you sure Java provides that?

I had a brief glance at the Java Language Specification,
and I didn't spot any construct matching that description.
So I suspect that you may be mistaken.

If not, I'd appreciate seeing a reference, e.g. to the relevant
section of the JLS <http://java.sun.com/doc/books/jls/index.html>.

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