[Haskell-cafe] Why isn't hsc2hs functionality provided by ghc?

[Ivan Lazar Miljenovic]

On 5 June 2013 12:02, silly8888 <silly8888 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was wondering today, why hasn't hsc2hs been merged with ghc so that
> it would be possible to add a
>
> {-# LANGUAGE ForeignFunctionInterface #-}
>
> at the top of a source file and then load it with ghci or compile it,
> without the intermediate step of calling hsc2hs? This would be exactly
> like the CPP extension. I don't have to call cpp manually. All I have
> to do is to add {-# LANGUAGE CPP #-} and then ghc will take care of
> the rest. This would also mean that there would be no need to have a
> separate file extension. Surely I must not be the first person to have
> that thought, so there must be a good reason why this hasn't happen
> yet, but what is it?

Isn't this done automatically when you have files with the .hsc extension?

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