Re: [Haskell-cafe] Handling platform- or configuration-specific code (or, my CPP complaints)

In general, I think using CPP for actual macro processing is extremely poor style and can easily make code inscrutable (and no doubt bug-prone). If the Haskell spec were to add support for this sort of top-level compiler/compiletime-flag conditional definition, I'd switch over.

I agree that CPP used only for conditional compilation, is much more acceptable than using it for macros as well. And co-incidentally, cpphs has a --nomacro flag. :-) Regards, Malcolm