[ghc-steering-committee] Please review #637: Modify multiline string proposal #569 to remove one trailing newline

[Eric Seidel]

Dear Committee,

Brandon has proposed an amendment to his previous multiline string proposal.

https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/637

The change is to strip one trailing newline from the lexed string, meaning that a multiline string like

"""
hello
world
"""

would actually lex as "hello\nworld".

He makes a compelling case that this behavior is more compositional. I recommend acceptance.

This is a tiny change, so I'll give us a week for review and will declare the amendment accepted next weekend barring any objections.

Eric

On Tue, Jul 16, 2024, at 02:19, Adam Gundry wrote:
> Dear Committee,
>
> Brandon Chinn proposes to amend the multiline string literal proposal 
> #569 to remove one trailing newline:
>
> https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/637
>
> I'd like to nominate Eric Seidel as the shepherd, since he was the 
> shepherd of #569.
>
> Please guide us to a conclusion as outlined in
> https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals#committee-process
>
> Cheers,
>
> Adam
>
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