I'm guessing this did *not* make it into 7.0.1, correct? Is there
still a chance that it will be in 7.0.2, and therefore the next HP
release?
Michael
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Simon Peyton-Jones
Good point. I've done this. (Ian, could you merge)
Fri Nov 12 08:30:52 GMT 2010 simonpj@microsoft.com * Allow the old [$foo| ... |] syntax for quasi-quotes
This is just a backward-compatibility thing, to be removed eventually.
Simon
| -----Original Message----- | From: haskell-cafe-bounces@haskell.org [mailto:haskell-cafe-bounces@haskell.org] On | Behalf Of Michael Snoyman | Sent: 11 November 2010 22:08 | To: Haskell Cafe | Subject: [Haskell-cafe] Quasiquoter invocation no longer requires/allows a leading | dollar sign. | | Sorry, maybe I missed the memo on this one, but I just noticed this | change to quasi-quotation syntax on the GHC 7 upgrade page[1]. So if | GHC 6.12 *requires* the dollar sign, and GHC 7 *rejects* the dollar | sign, is there any way to write code that will run on both? Is there a | reason we can't keep the dollar sign as supported syntax for a release | or two to make for a cleaner migration? | | Michael | | [1] | http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Upgrading_packages/Updating_to_GHC_7#Quasiquo.... | 5B.24foo.7C....7C.5D_-.3E_.5Bfoo.7C....7C.5D | _______________________________________________ | Haskell-Cafe mailing list | Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org | http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe