indeed it was the cpp, and the behaviour is consistent beetween versions, I
must have introduced some changes that affected the eol marker. Thanks for
your tip.
jvl
----- Original Message -----
From: "Duncan Coutts"
On Sat, 2009-08-22 at 15:52 +1000, John Lask wrote:
in declaring fixity for an operator (\\) to get it to compile using ghc 6.10.4, I needed to use the following code
infixl 9 \\\ (\\) a b = etc ...
where I assume the first \ escapes the second \, using infixl 9 \\ generates a syntax error
infixl 9 \\ used to compile no problems with ghc 6.8.2
what is going on here ?
Usually this problem is related to cpp, since \\ at the end of a line has special meaning to cpp.
Are you sure that you're comparing like with like when you say it worked in ghc-6.8.2? If you're using cpp for the module now and in the past you were not then that would explain it.
Another trick I've seen is:
infixl 9 \\ -- this comment is here to defeat evil cpp mangling
Duncan