Re: [Haskell-cafe] RFC: "Native -XCPP" Proposal

Perhaps it makes sense to scan hackage to find all the different CPP idioms that are actually used in Haskell code, if it is a small/well-defined set it may be worth writing a simple custom preprocessor. Alan On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 3:03 PM, Mikhail Glushenkov < the.dead.shall.rise@gmail.com> wrote:

On 6 May 2015 at 14:25, Austin Seipp wrote:

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2) The lexing rules for C and Haskell simply are not the same in general.

One area where this is irritating is that it makes it impossible to use Haskell multiline strings together with CPP. _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs