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

[Simon Peyton Jones]

I'm in support.

Simon

On Sun, 28 Jul 2024 at 17:32, Eric Seidel <eric at seidel.io> wrote:

> 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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