At 20:18 06/04/04 +0200, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote:
I agree that this should be possible with the hmake code. FWIW, I have, in fact, already teased that functionality out (to a small degree) and made it available in my work-in-progress HMake API.
Will such a preprocessor work on source code like cpp does or on a syntax tree? The latter would be better, IMO; the former would probably have little or no advantage over cpp.
The key advantage over CPP is that it's available wherever a Haskell system is installed. The tools you take for granted on Unix/Linux are not always installed on (say) Windows target systems. My goal here is that Haskell programs be easy to use on any target. Installing a Haskell system may be too much overhead, but we can't get away without that. Anything else is an unnecessary barrier to adoption. #g ------------ Graham Klyne For email: http://www.ninebynine.org/#Contact