[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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