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