[ I'm just working through a large backlog of mails, so the original message
is a bit old... :-) ]
Am Sonntag, 20. August 2006 22:37 schrieb Henning Thielemann:
On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, Brian Smith wrote:
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I think there should be more effort to avoid CPP completely. My
experiences with
On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, Brian Smith wrote:
I find it strange that right now almost every Haskell program directly or
indirectly (through FPTOOLS) depends on CPP, yet there is no effort to
replace CPP with something better or standardize its usage in Haskell.
I think there should be more effort
Hi,
I find it strange that right now almost every Haskell program
directly or indirectly (through FPTOOLS) depends on CPP, yet there is
no effort to replace CPP with something better or standardize its usage
in Haskell. According to the following document, and my own limited
experience in reading
On 8/17/06, John Meacham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 11:44:17AM -0500, Brian Smith wrote: Hi, I find it strange that right now almost every Haskell program directly or indirectly (through FPTOOLS) depends on CPP, yet there is no effort to
replace CPP with something better or
brianlsmith:
Hi,
I find it strange that right now almost every Haskell
program directly or indirectly (through FPTOOLS) depends on
CPP, yet there is no effort to replace CPP with something
better or standardize its usage in Haskell. According to the
Note also cpphs,
Even though I'm largely responsible for making CPP available in a
Haskell compiler I think it's an abomination. It should be avoided.
If we standardize it, people will use it even more. I think we
should discourage it instead, then looking at exactly what it's used
for and supplying sane
