Hi,
after some debugging of a higher-level tool I found out that when I use
cpphs as a library and the `runCpphs` function that is to produce the
preprocessed output, when it comes across the #error directive it will
terminate my program.
This is because handling #error is implemented with Haskell's `error`.
I find that slightly unfortunate since it means I cannot distinguish
betwen an #error written in the input file and a programming error
inside cpphs.
@Malcolm, would you mind a change towards throwing an exception that is
different from error so that it can be easily caught, or even better, a
change from
runCpphs :: ... -> IO String
to
runCpphs :: ... -> IO (Either String String)
or similar?
If an exception based interface is kept, it would be nice to add some
haddock to `runCpphs`; not knowing about the existence of #error, it is
easy to assume that the IO is only used for accessing the FilePath
passed in.
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