[PRL] laziness
Paul A. Steckler
steck at stecksoft.com
Wed Jun 23 14:12:57 EDT 2004
> Haskell functions can't abstract over type declarations, for example. Oleg
> notes that the use of a preprocessor in the implementation of the GHC
> compiler is an indication of the usefuless of macros beyond what laziness
> can buy you.
In a project I'm involved with, we use cpp directives in Haskell code
to recover error information. I can hear Matthias now ... :-)
-- Paul
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