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This part of the guide is to help people upgrading from a
previous version of GHC. Right now, it is mostly to help people
switching from GHC 0.29 (a Haskell 1.2 compiler, mostly) to GHC 2.xx
(a Haskell 1.4 compiler).
If you need to maintain Haskell code that will work for multiple
versions of GHC, you can use the `-cpp' flag and the
`__GLASGOW_HASKELL__' pre-processor variable.
For example, in GHC 0.29, `__GLASGOW_HASKELL__' will be 29; for 2.04,
it will be 204. Thus, you can write:
#if __HASKELL1__ <= 2
main = appendChan stdout "Hello, world!\n" exit done -- 1.2
#else
# if __GLASGOW_HASKELL__ >= 200
import IO
main = putStr "Hello, world!" -- real 1.3
# else
main = putStr "Hello, world!\n" -- pseudo-1.3 in 0.2x
# endif
#endif
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