Re: Platform-Specific Extensions (was Re: Dynamic sizing.)

Axel Simon <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.haskell.gui
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 09:14:16PM +0100, Glynn Clements wrote:
> > 2) Such platform-specific functions must be clearly marked as such.
> > I suggest that we follow the example of OpenGL and mark extensions 
> > using a suffix to the name, e.g.
> > mkXmForm_EXT, loadNibFile_EXT, etc.
> 
> I'd rather just use modules and qualified names.

Me too. We might even use the deprecated pragma (or something similar) to 
flag if the user uses backend specific functions.

Axel.
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