[Haskell-beginners] Maximum length of a GHCi command?

[Erlend Hamberg]

On Sunday 28. February 2010 08.54.38 Kwanghoon Choi wrote:
> ===
> Prelude> length
>  "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
> aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" <interactive>:1:254:
>     lexical error in string/character literal at character '\EOT'
> ===
>  
> It seems to me that GHCi doesn't allow me to type more than some specified
>  length of a command. Is this interpretation correct? How can I make it
>  longer?

Which platform is this? That works perfectly here. Even 1000 characters seems 
to work.
If this is on *nix, maybe it has something to do with readline / editline / 
whatever is used now?

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