GHC's CPP and Cabal's unlit

[Duncan Coutts]

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> From: David Waern <david.waern at gmail.com>
> To: Duncan Coutts <duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk>
> Subject: Re: GHC's CPP and Cabal's unlit
> Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 16:43:10 +0100
> 
> 2008/2/2, Duncan Coutts <duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk>:
> >
> > On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 14:43 +0000, Duncan Coutts wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 14:25 +0000, Alistair Bayley wrote:
> > >
> > > > the comment block (like cabal does)
> > > >  - don't indent code relative to comments, because Haddock doesn't like this
> > >
> > > Hmm, we will have to find another solution to this because the H98 unlit
> > > spec clearly states that '>' is to be replaced with a ' ', not just
> > > deleted. So if haddock barfs on code like:
> > >
> > > -- a comment
> > >
> > >  some code
> >
> > So I downloaded takusen and tried this. Haddock does indeed barf. The
> > problem is worse though because we do not know how much to indent by to
> > fix things.
> 
> I just checked with Haddock 2 and it also doesn't accept
> "mis-indented" comments. Fixing this might be possible but it would
> need modifications to the GHC parser. It might be better to look at
> the indentation level of the code, and use that for the comments.
> 
> David