13 Feb
2002
13 Feb
'02
1:30 p.m.
Does anybody with their elbows in the code think variable interpolation and/or multi-line strings are good/doable ideas? Would this be the sort of change one could make without a lot of previous familiarity with the implementation of Hugs/Ghc? It would be a *signifigant* boon to those of us trying to get haskell into organizations by using it as "maintainable perl/sh", and generally make an already delightful language more delightful.
I once wondered about translating "aaa \$bbb ccc" into "aaa " ++ show bbb ++ " ccc" (before you check, \$ isn't a valid escape sequence in Haskell 98). Of course, you could go all the way and do it properly: http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~partain/haskerl/partain-1.html Cheers, Simon