On 08 November 2005 14:44, Malcolm Wallace wrote:
> Whilst we are wishing for language features, I wonder if anyone
> else would be interested in being able to export/import such cpp
> macros using the normal Haskell module mechanism? At the moment,
> it is ugly that you need to either #include or #define your macros
> separately in every module where you use them. But if the cpp phase
> were integrated more tightly into the compiler, it could be possible
> to treat macros almost like ordinary function definitions.
*shudder*
I disagree most strongly. CPP is a well-defined preprocessing stage, it
is easily understood by virtue of being separate from Haskell. I don't
even want to start thinking about what happens if you merge the CPP and
Haskell namespaces... ugh!
I guess we have a different idea of what's "ugly" :)
Cheers,
Simon
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