> Sad, but very true! And GHC's headers are not very nice in
> this respect:
>
> panne@jeanluc:~> grep '#define [^ \t][^ \t] '
> /usr/lib/ghc-5.03/include/*
> /usr/lib/ghc-5.03/include/PrimOps.h:#define C 0
> /usr/lib/ghc-5.03/include/PrimOps.h:#define R 1
> /usr/lib/ghc-5.03/include/PrimOps.h:#define C 1
> /usr/lib/ghc-5.03/include/PrimOps.h:#define R 0
Yikes! Fixed, thanks.
> panne@jeanluc:~> grep '#define [^ \t][^ \t] '
> /usr/lib/ghc-5.03/include/*
> /usr/lib/ghc-5.03/include/Regs.h:#define R1 (BaseReg->rR1)
> /usr/lib/ghc-5.03/include/Regs.h:#define R2 (BaseReg->rR2)
> /usr/lib/ghc-5.03/include/Regs.h:#define F1 (BaseReg->rF1)
> /usr/lib/ghc-5.03/include/Regs.h:#define F2 (BaseReg->rF2)
> /usr/lib/ghc-5.03/include/Regs.h:#define F3 (BaseReg->rF3)
> /usr/lib/ghc-5.03/include/Regs.h:#define F4 (BaseReg->rF4)
> /usr/lib/ghc-5.03/include/Regs.h:#define D1 (BaseReg->rD1)
> /usr/lib/ghc-5.03/include/Regs.h:#define D2 (BaseReg->rD2)
> /usr/lib/ghc-5.03/include/Regs.h:#define L1 (BaseReg->rL1)
> /usr/lib/ghc-5.03/include/Regs.h:#define Sp (BaseReg->rSp)
> /usr/lib/ghc-5.03/include/Regs.h:#define Su (BaseReg->rSu)
> /usr/lib/ghc-5.03/include/Regs.h:#define Hp (BaseReg->rHp)
>
> And so on...
>
> SimonM: What about a "poor man's" namespace, i.e. prefixing
> every macro,
> type, etc. with "GHC"/"ghc"? OpenGL, GLUT, GTK, etc. do a
> similar thing,
> and although it's a primitive measure, it's very effective.
We really *should* do this, I know. The problem is that it isn't free
by a long shot: it'll make .hc files significantly larger, and obfuscate
a lot of code.
Anyone have any ideas that don't have such a big impact?
Cheers,
Simon
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