Macros / functions for source location
In GNAT (Ada compiler) there is a special package with functions (evaluated at compile time) that return source location and enclosing entity name. This is very useful for logging and debugging. I'd love to have something similar in GHC.
http://www.radford.edu/~nokie/classes/320/std_lib_html/gnat-source_info.html
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