Re: [Haskell-cafe] multi-line strings (Was: Hackage on Linux)

On 28 August 2010 20:55, Joachim Breitner wrote:

Hi,

Am Samstag, den 28.08.2010, 08:18 +1000 schrieb Ivan Lazar Miljenovic:

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On 28 August 2010 00:02, Felipe Lessa wrote:

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On 8/27/10, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:

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Admittedly, Haskell has no multi-line String support which would make defining something like the "Description" field harder...

Quick correction: Haskell *does* have multi-line strings. For example:

   "This is a\    \ nice string"

I meant in the sense of Python, etc. where you didn't have to insert newline characters, etc. in.

A similar problem is solved by http://github.com/jgm/hsb2hs which might be useful if you need to embed larger pieces of text.

Huh, very nice; thanks for the link. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like John has released a version on Hackage yet :( Then again, the first commit on github was the beginning of this month... -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic Ivan.Miljenovic@gmail.com IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com