Hi
I can see problems with this. This comes up when typing windows file path's:
"C:\path to my\directory\boo"
If this now reports no errors, who wants to guess which come up as
escape codes, and which don't. The way other languages like C# have
dealt with this is by introducing a new type of quoted string:
@":\/"
In a @" string, there are no escape characters, except for "" which
means ". There are various other quoting mechanisms available - but
all have the problem of being yet another thing to learn.
Thanks
Neil
On 10/22/07, David Roundy
I've just been annoyed with errors ghc reports when I use a string literal such as ":\/:" (which is a contructor in darcs). Of course, it wants ":\\/:", but I'd rather type the former. Is there any reason why the language couldn't be modified (e.g. in haskell') to make the former legal? i.e. to treat string literals with '\\' followed by a character that doesn't describe an escape as a literal backslash? It makes the rules a bit more complicated, but doesn't modify the meaning of any currently-legal code, and removes a potential error. -- David Roundy Department of Physics Oregon State University _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe