On Thu, 17 Aug 2006, Brian Smith wrote:
I find it strange that right now almost every Haskell program directly or indirectly (through FPTOOLS) depends on CPP, yet there is no effort to replace CPP with something better or standardize its usage in Haskell.
I think there should be more effort to avoid CPP completely. My experiences with Modula-3 are, that you can nicely separate special-purpose stuff into modules which are included depending on some conditions. Say you want the same module both for Windows and Unix, you provide directories WIN32 and POSIX containing implementations with the same interface and then the make system can choose the appropriate directory. See for example the handling of line end coding in Windows and Unix: http://www.elego-software-solutions.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/cm3/m3-libs/libm3...