A Haskell specific preprocessor

[Keith Wansbrough]

Olaf writes:

> I faintly remember that there was once work on a Haskell specific
> preprocessor. Why was the work abandoned?

I had some ideas, which I put together in a note

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~kw217/research/paper-abstracts.html#Wansbrough99:Macros

but most people seemed to believe that a lazy language shouldn't need macros or a preprocessor (despite the liberal use of both in GHC, for example).

--KW 8-)
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