[Haskell-cafe] Replacing CPP [was: Current status of Mavericks CPP]

[Ben Franksen]

Erik Hesselink wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 2:48 PM, Ben Franksen <ben.franksen at online.de>
> wrote:
>> There are people on this list who grep the whole of hackage in a matter
>> of minutes whenever someone (seriously) proposes some non-compatible
>> change to see who many libraries would be affected. (Any volunteers?) My
>> guess is that no more than a few hands full of the hackage packages use
>> more than conditional compilation, but I may be completely wrong about
>> that.
> 
> I think some core packages like base and (IIRC) containers use CPP to
> define instances and such.

Ok, these would still have to use CPP, until we have something more 
suitable.

> One conditional compilation feature that's used relatively often and
> not covered by your earlier proposal is bounds checks on libraries
> through cabal. It could be handled the same way as GHC versions, of
> course, but I think the triple of version numbers is a bit more
> 'correct' and flexible.

Can you point me to an example or some documentation? I am not too familiar 
with advanced cabal usage...

Cheers
Ben
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