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From: David Allsopp <dra-news@metastack.com>
To: "caml-list@inria.fr" <caml-list@inria.fr>
Subject: RE: [Caml-list] Filename.temp_dir_name
Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 09:49:29 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E51C5B015DBD1348A1D85763337FB6D9E9674509@Remus.metastack.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BDF29F6BBA3344AFB6131BD3E9246404@erratique.ch>

Daniel Bünzli wrote:
> Le jeudi, 30 octobre 2014 à 10:22, Sylvain Pogodalla a écrit :
> > The IFDEF instruction of campl4 (and the corresponding -D flag) may
> > also be useful for that purpose.
> 
> Rather than using ugly pre-processing tools and make unreadable #idef'd
> sources you can simply gather version specific functionality in different
> modules with the same name and choose the right one at configure time.

That would involve vast amounts of code duplication (certainly for the unix case in batteries) and would make the sources considerably less readable as you'd lose the obvious source-based knowledge of where the differences are!


David

  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-30  9:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-23 12:12 Sébastien Hinderer
2014-10-23 12:50 ` David Allsopp
2014-10-29 14:30   ` Sébastien Hinderer
2014-10-29 14:41     ` David Allsopp
2014-10-29 15:29       ` Sébastien Hinderer
2014-10-30  7:35         ` Gabriel Scherer
2014-10-30  9:22         ` Sylvain Pogodalla
2014-10-30  9:40           ` Daniel Bünzli
2014-10-30  9:49             ` David Allsopp [this message]
2014-10-30 10:04               ` Daniel Bünzli
2014-10-30  9:44           ` Sébastien Hinderer

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