On 8 Apr 2013, at 14:52, Roman Cheplyaka wrote:
>> In my opinion, it is perfectly valid to have intentional preprocessor
>> directives inside Haskell comments.
>
> Could you give an example where this is useful?
> ... macro expansions inside the comments are rather exotic.
{- | Some module documentation.
#define WEBSITE
http://some.really.rather.long/and/tedious/URL/that_I_dont_want_to_type_too_often
You can find more information about Foo at WEBSITE/Foo and Bar at WEBSITE/Bar
-}
As you say, the #define could equally live outside the comment, but I don't see
why we should have an arbitrary restriction that it _must_ live outside the
comment. As you also say, "the liberty to write whatever one wants inside a
comment feels important", and if that includes the intentional use of CPP, why
not?
Regards,
Malcolm
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