
23 Sep
2006
23 Sep
'06
8:59 p.m.
Hi
Any tool which assumes strings are delimited by a single front delimiter and a single end delimiter, which they are in most reasonable languages, will have trouble.
In current haskell any tool which assumes characters start and end with a ' are also wrong, because you can have name' as a function name etc. My editor is one of these, I accepted it, turned off character syntax hilighting and moved on. As a side note, perhaps if you're shoving massive amounts of text into a Haskell source file you want to either move to something more structured (like haskell source extensions), or if it really is just some large constant, then put it in a separate file. Thanks Neil