8 Jun
2020
8 Jun
'20
5:16 a.m.
On Mon, 8 Jun 2020, Fumiaki Kinoshita wrote:
Therefore I propose to revisit the policy for portability of core libraries. Portability is not a bad thing, but few people use other compilers these days. The drag is only likely to increase because there's no plan (AFAIK) for a new Haskell standard.
The problem is: The less portable libraries we have, the less useful is any new compiler. I do not use any CPP for my libraries. I always use Cabal flags to switch between two Hs-Source-Dirs containing different implementations of some (not all) modules. This way, you could easily switch to the portable implementation also for GHC.