On Mon, Nov 20, 2023 at 03:07:42PM -0500, Viktor Dukhovni wrote:
I may have found an acceptable work-around:
{-# LANGUAGE CPP #-} module Main(main) where
hello :: String hello = "Hello\ \ \ World!"
main :: IO () main = print hello
Is this trick "well known"?
I have now (should have earlier) checked the user guide and found: https://downloads.haskell.org/ghc/latest/docs/users_guide/phases.html?highli... and see that the it suggests adding trailing spaces. If that once worked, it no longer seems to. However adding a space and a trailing "\" does work. Perhaps the documentation can be updated? I do not know how portable my "\ \" sufix is across various systems. It works on a Fedora 36 system (Gnu toolchain), and with FreeBSD with both Clang and Gnu CPP. -- Viktor.