Stephen Paul Weber <[email protected]> writes:
>>As you may be aware, GHC's `{-# LANGUAGE CPP #-}` language extension
>>currently relies on the system's C-compiler bundled `cpp` program to
>>provide a "traditional mode" c-preprocessor.
>
> Yes. This is one of my favourite things in GHC-land -- that an existing,
> good-enough, standardised, and widely-deployed solution was chosen over a NiH
> reinvention of preprocessing.
(Note: here I assume that my irony detector is hopelessly broken..)
At the risk of spreading dangerous novelty..
..come on, the C preprocessor *is* a NIH reinvention of proper metaprogramming,
and the word used to denote it ("preprocessing") betrays it so badly.
As an example:
http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/24_abaa.htm
Why can't we make TH be more like that?
--
respectfully,
Косырев Серёга
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