Re: [Haskell-cafe] RFC: "Native -XCPP" Proposal

Sven Panne writes:

2015-05-06 16:21 GMT+02:00 Bardur Arantsson :

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+1, I'll wager that the vast majority of usages are just for version range checks.

The OpenGL-related packages used macros to generate some binding magic (a "foreign import" plus some helper functions for each API entry), not just range checks.

So, metaprogramming. The question that comes to mind -- why suffer such a lousy tool as cpp for metaprogramming? Why *shouldn't* TH fill that role? What can be done about it? -- regards, Косырев Серёга