[Haskell-cafe] OS Abstraction module??

[Tim Chevalier]

On 10/22/07, Neil Mitchell <ndmitchell at gmail.com> wrote:
> The key thing to note about this is that whether a program is running
> on Windows or Posix is fixed at compile time. Things like classes can
> do some of what you seem to be after, but it tends to be easier to
> reach for the C pre processor.
>

Although there's also the System.Info.os function if you want to avoid CPP:
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/System-Info.html

However, since it just returns a string, it may not be too much better
than using CPP...

Cheers,
Tim

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