state of the cabal (preprocessors)

[ross at soi.city.ac.uk]

On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 05:33:41PM -0400, Isaac Jones wrote:
> "Simon Marlow" <simonmar at microsoft.com> writes:
> > 3. We add CPP to the list of extensions in Cabal, so you can say {-#
> > LANGUAGE CPP #-} to get C preprocessing in the current file, or add CPP
> > to the list of extensions in the package description to get CPP on every
> > file.  That doesn't preclude also using a .cpp extension, but it means
> > you don't have to.
> 
> For hugs this would mean preprocessing all files and putting the new
> .hs files into a temp directory and compiling these.

When you get to .hs, you're done (except for compiling ffi stubs) -- 
these are libraries ready for Hugs.

> Hopefully, there
> will be directives in the preprocessed sources to refer back to the
> original source, and hugs should report errors against the original
> source lines rather than the preprocessed source lines.  Is hugs able
> to do this already?

No, it doesn't understand LINE pragmas (nor #line).