[ghc-steering-committee] Proposal #569: multiline string literals; Rec: accept

[Eric Seidel]

> On Dec 29, 2023, at 07:19, Richard Eisenberg <rae at richarde.dev> wrote:
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> On the other hand, I'm a little worried that this doesn't have support for raw strings. That is, even with this, there will still be some users who reach for quasiquotes for multi-line strings, if those strings contain backslashes.

I had a similar thought at first, but I think raw strings can be added independently of this proposal. So long as we are not closing the door to a future addition I think it is fine to take incremental steps.