state of the cabal (preprocessors)

Simon Peyton-Jones simonpj at microsoft.com
Wed Oct 27 03:02:29 EDT 2004


| As to backwards compatibility in general, would there be a problem
| if GHC and NHC continue to support their respective OPTIONS variants
| as a deprecated feature? Then no old code should break.

I think this is highly desirable. There are a lot of those OPTIONS
pragmas
out there now.

Simon


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