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I also have constants that are too large to compile. I am resigned to loading them from data files--other solutions seem even worse. ... Data.Binary eases the irritation somewhat.

Did you try bytestring literals (and maybe parsing them in-memory with Data.Binary)?

I finally squeezed enough time to try it, and it didn't work for me.

-- ghc Overflow.hs [1 of 1] Compiling Overflow ( Overflow.hs, Overflow.o )

Enable optimisations! Compile with ghc -O2. You need this to avoid having a very slow pack call at runtime.

Overflow.hs:8:10:stack overflow: use +RTS -K<size> to increase it --

where Overflow.hs is in the vicinity of 40M and looks like

-- {-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings #-}

module Overflow where

import qualified Data.ByteString.Lazy as S

bigData :: S.ByteString bigData = "\0\0\0\0\0\5\67\195\0\0\0\0... --

I didn't compress it, because Codec.Compression.GZip didn't compile for me. It looked like a library change since 6.6 broke it.

Probably you don't have the zlib.h header? Or make sure you have the latest version of zlib from hackage -- it does work.

Is there a handy string escaping function in the libraries somewhere? It only took a minute to write one, and I spent longer than that looking, so maybe it's the wrong question.... Surely it's in there somewhere, and I'm just 2 dum 2 c.

The show function?