patch applied (haskell-prime-status): proposal: remove string gaps

[Simon Marlow]

Neil Mitchell wrote:
> Hi
> 
>>   > If you have two features battling each other, you probably need to
>>   > remove one of them. CPP isn't going to be removed, which kind of
>>   > forces the issue...
>>
>>  Well, for the record, I've used both CPP and string gaps
>>  extensively. And all I've done is to be careful to run CPP
>>  only where needed (and avoid string gaps there), which seems
>>  rather sensible to me anyway, string gaps or not.
> 
> Having two "features" which can't be used together in the same file
> seems ridiculous. It gets much worse if you decide "ghc --make -cpp"
> is the way you want to build your application, as we used to do for
> Yhc. I suggest that if string gaps don't get removed, then GHC should
> fix its -cpp flag.

GHC is unlikely to "fix" its -cpp flag unfortunately, because the 
problem is with CPP, not GHC.  The best we can do is document the 
problem, which we have done.

Cheers,
	Simon