Preprocessors (was: state of the cabal (preprocessors))

[Ketil Malde]

I've recently run into a problem using the preprocessor (ghc -cpp).
It seems it barfs on 's (apostrophe).  Annoying, since naming
variables something-prime is a fairly common idiom.

Is this something that has a workaround, or could be fixed?

(The specific problem is redefining 'head' in a macro
and using it like:

    let w' = head ... -- breaks

One workaround is to write it as:

    let w' = 
             head ... -- works
)

-kzm
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