Surprising behavior with CPP extension
The CPP language extension performs macro substitutions in Haskell comments. I see why it does but it seems like eliding the comments before pre-processing would be less surprising. Eg. compiling:
{-# LANGUAGE CPP -#}
-- | Some folder foo/bar/*gives the error:
error: unterminated comment
-- | Some folder foo/bar/*because the /* in the comment is interpreted as starting a C comment.
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| Version | 8.0.2 |
| Type | Bug |
| TypeOfFailure | OtherFailure |
| Priority | normal |
| Resolution | Unresolved |
| Component | Compiler |
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