haskell-prime-bounces@haskell.org wrote:
I would also like to see these. I like the python syntax
""" stuff... """
but really most anything will do.
the triple quote doesn't eat any usable syntax though and won't require any special cases in the parser so I would much prefer something like that.
Would someone like to make a ticket/wiki page for HereDocuments? I suggest that here documents could supplant string gaps, which are a pain both for the compiler and the user and interact badly with CPP. In fact, I suggest removing string gaps anyway, since "abc"++ "cde"++ ... is just as good as "abc\ \cde\ ... GHC optimises the first to the second anyway. I find myself using explicit ++ rather than string gaps these days, ever since the problems with recent versions of GNU CPP and string gaps arose (yes I know cpphs works with string gaps). Cheers, Simon