RE: ghc-5.02.2 cannot parse string gaps

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ghc-5.02.2 cannot parse string gaps. It accepts \ at the end of a line but not at the beginning of the following line.

It works ok here. There's a well-known problem with string gaps in conjunction with CPP; see

http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/set/options-phases.html#C-PRE-PROCESS...

In fact, there was a (useless) -cpp in my Makefile. Thank you, Michael