[Haskell-cafe] Re: C Preprocessor

2007-12-06 Thread Reinier Lamers 

Bernd Brassel wrote:


Is it already a known problem that the preprocessor cannot cope with the
whole set of possible string declarations?


Yes, it is:

http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/146

I ran into it lately. I was totally unaware of what caused GHC's parse 
error on a valid line until someone on the IRC channel pointed it out. 
According to the ticket, cpphs (a Haskell-oriented CPP replacement) does 
get it right.


Regards,
Reinier
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Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: C Preprocessor

2007-12-06 Thread Malcolm Wallace 
 Is it already a known problem that the preprocessor cannot cope with
 the whole set of possible string declarations?
 
 Yes, it is:
 
 According to the ticket, cpphs (a Haskell-oriented CPP replacement)
 does  get it right.

  http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/fp/cpphs

After installing, give ghc the options -cpp -pgmPcpphs -optP--cpp.

Regards,
Malcolm
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