Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: looking for origin of quote on preprocessors and language design

2010-01-14 Thread Henning Thielemann
Maciej Piechotka schrieb: Hmm. May I ask how to do for example something depending on POSIX or WinAPI? I am sorry but I cannot see how any of the above problems could be solved. Sure, I choose different Hs-Source-Dirs for the different platforms. Multiple Hs-Source-Dirs are merged.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: looking for origin of quote on preprocessors and language design

2010-01-14 Thread Jason Dusek
2010/01/07 Maciej Piechotka uzytkown...@gmail.com: On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 13:32 +0100, Johannes Waldmann wrote: Dear all, It's not exactly Haskell-specific, but ... I am trying to track down the origin of the proverb the existence (or: need for) a preprocessor shows omissions in (the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: looking for origin of quote on preprocessors and language design

2010-01-13 Thread Henning Thielemann
Maciej Piechotka schrieb: Not quite. While I agree that the *frequent* need for a preprocessor shows omissions in (the design of) a language. it is not necessary the case. Preprocessor may be useful if: - there is a new beatyful feature in newer version of compiler but you still want to have

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: looking for origin of quote on preprocessors and language design

2010-01-13 Thread Maciej Piechotka
On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 22:42 +0100, Henning Thielemann wrote: Maciej Piechotka schrieb: Not quite. While I agree that the *frequent* need for a preprocessor shows omissions in (the design of) a language. it is not necessary the case. Preprocessor may be useful if: - there is a new

[Haskell-cafe] Re: looking for origin of quote on preprocessors and language design

2010-01-07 Thread Maciej Piechotka
On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 13:32 +0100, Johannes Waldmann wrote: Dear all, It's not exactly Haskell-specific, but ... I am trying to track down the origin of the proverb the existence (or: need for) a preprocessor shows omissions in (the design of) a language. I like to think that in