On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 09:14:16PM +0100, Glynn Clements wrote:
2) Such platform-specific functions must be clearly marked as such. I suggest that we follow the example of OpenGL and mark extensions using a suffix to the name, e.g. mkXmForm_EXT, loadNibFile_EXT, etc.
I'd rather just use modules and qualified names.
It's probably the more Haskell-like way. Should be fine as long as we stay away from adding constructors to datatypes (which we probably should anyway). Axel Simon wrote:
Me too. We might even use the deprecated pragma (or something similar) to flag if the user uses backend specific functions.
I wouldn't like that, because it would give me tons of warnings for perfectly good platform-specific programs. Just tell users to always import the "extensions" modules qualified, and no-one will ever use an extension without knowing it. Cheers, Wolfgang