Stephen Paul Weber
As you may be aware, GHC's `{-# LANGUAGE CPP #-}` language extension currently relies on the system's C-compiler bundled `cpp` program to provide a "traditional mode" c-preprocessor.
Yes. This is one of my favourite things in GHC-land -- that an existing, good-enough, standardised, and widely-deployed solution was chosen over a NiH reinvention of preprocessing.
(Note: here I assume that my irony detector is hopelessly broken..) At the risk of spreading dangerous novelty.. ..come on, the C preprocessor *is* a NIH reinvention of proper metaprogramming, and the word used to denote it ("preprocessing") betrays it so badly. As an example: http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/24_abaa.htm Why can't we make TH be more like that? -- respectfully, Косырев Серёга