Herbert,

Yes, you are right. It was my experience when compiling base with haskell-names' hs-gen-iface that, unless __GLASGOW_HASKELL__ is defined, many functions (including H2010) would simply not be defined, and some code wouldn't even be well-formed Haskell.

First I tried to fix that on the spot, but there were so many cases that I gave up and made hs-gen-iface define __GLASGOW_HASKELL__ despite not being one.

I'm not sure these ifdefs nowadays have any value whatsoever.

Roman

On Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Herbert Valerio Riedel <hvr@gnu.org> wrote:

Hi,

On 2013-09-15 at 09:06:13 +0200, Austin Seipp wrote:
> I'm voting we delete it. In fact: I say if nobody pipes up and is
> *committed* to maintaining it, we delete it, oh, two weeks. That's
> standard library-proposal timeframe. (And I do mean maintenance - not
> "drop barely enough work to get it into shape and then leave it alone
> for 5+ more years.")

Fyi, I've gone ahead and started preparing validate-checked removal
commits for two of the affected packages:

- https://github.com/hvr/packages-base/compare/kill-hugs-support

- https://github.com/hvr/packages-array/compare/kill-hugs-support

...while going through the #ifdef's and playing human CPP I couldn't
help but wonder whether the `#if(n)def __GLASGOW_HASKELL__` are worth
it: Some places didn't look as if they would compile if
`__GLASGOW_HASKELL__` wasn't defined.

Cheers,
hvr

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