Re: [Haskell-cafe] Using stringize and string concatenation in ghc preprocessing

Am 18.01.2017 um 23:43 schrieb Brandon Allbery:

On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 5:39 PM, Ben Franksen wrote:

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Am 20.08.2016 um 20:33 schrieb Brandon Allbery:

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You might want to look at cpphs as an alternative preprocessor. There are some ancient K&R-era hacks that could be used if absolutely necessary, but cpphs should be a much simpler and cleaner solution.

Is there any reason /not/ to prefer cpphs over cpp? If not, why does anyone still use cpp for Haskell?

Licensing.

http://projects.haskell.org/cpphs/ says: """ License: The library modules in cpphs are distributed under the terms of the LGPL (see file LICENCE-LGPL for more details). If that's a problem for you, contact me to make other arrangements. The application module 'cpphs.hs' itself is GPL (see file LICENCE-GPL). If you have a commercial use for cpphs and find the terms of the (L)GPL too onerous, you can instead choose to distribute unmodified binaries (not source), under the terms of LICENCE-commercial """ I can't see how this would inconvenience anyone. Besides, GNU's cpp is certainly GPL licensed; I wonder why different standards are applied here. Cheers Ben -- "Make it so they have to reboot after every typo." ― Scott Adams