[ghc-steering-committee] Please review #680: Clarify CRLF behavior in multiline strings (amendment to #569)

Eric Seidel eric at seidel.io
Sun Nov 17 16:26:37 UTC 2024


Makes sense, the clarification is what I would have expected.

On Tue, Nov 12, 2024, at 16:28, Malte Ott wrote:
> I agree.
>
> On 2024-11-12 20:58, Adam Gundry wrote:
>> I'm happy to support this. Let's get it done for 9.12 so we don't have an
>> inconsistency across versions.
>> 
>> Adam
>> 
>> 
>> On 12/11/2024 06:01, Moritz Angermann wrote:
>> > I’m in support. I see the \r and \r\n as opposed to \n as legacy. There
>> > of course is a problem cross-system. I just hope this will never bite
>> > us.
>> > 
>> > On Tue, Nov 12, 2024 at 7:42 AM Simon Peyton Jones
>> > <simon.peytonjones at gmail.com <mailto:simon.peytonjones at gmail.com>>
>> > wrote:
>> > 
>> >     Looks fine to me. I support.
>> > 
>> >     Simon
>> > 
>> >     On Mon, 11 Nov 2024 at 09:48, Sebastian Graf <sgraf1337 at gmail.com
>> >     <mailto:sgraf1337 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> > 
>> >         Hi Arnaud,
>> > 
>> >         Apologies. Indeed, your summary is apt; the proposal is in
>> >         response to a bug report in GHC:
>> >         https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/25375
>> >         <https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/issues/25375>
>> >         This bug motivates splitting multiline string literals not only
>> >         at `\n` characters, but at general lexical newline terminators
>> >         as defined in Haskell2010
>> >         <https://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/haskell2010/haskellch2.html#x7-160002.2> (which would also include `\r\n`, `\r` and `\f`).
>> >         The phrasing in the proposal pre amendment can be seen as
>> >         ambiguous: What exactly is considered a "newline"? Is it just
>> >         `\n` or is it the `newline` lexeme specified in Haskell2010 and
>> >         that is used anywhere else in the report?
>> >         The amendment merely clarifies that we mean the latter.
>> > 
>> >         This amendment also resolves the question of whether there is a
>> >         bug in the yet unreleased implementation of -XMultilineStrings
>> >         in GHC 9.12 or in the proposal text. After this amendment, the
>> >         bug is in GHC, where it is easily fixed
>> >         (https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/merge_requests/13432
>> >         <https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/-/merge_requests/13432>).
>> > 
>> >         Hence I recommend acceptance.
>> > 
>> >         Cheers,
>> >         Sebastian
>> > 
>> > 
>> >         ------ Originalnachricht ------
>> >         Von "Arnaud Spiwack" <arnaud.spiwack at tweag.io
>> >         <mailto:arnaud.spiwack at tweag.io>>
>> >         An "Sebastian Graf" <sgraf1337 at gmail.com
>> >         <mailto:sgraf1337 at gmail.com>>
>> >         Cc "Adam Gundry" <adam at well-typed.com
>> >         <mailto:adam at well-typed.com>>;
>> >         ghc-steering-committee at haskell.org
>> >         <mailto:ghc-steering-committee at haskell.org>
>> >         Datum 11.11.2024 10:36:29
>> >         Betreff Re: [ghc-steering-committee] Please review #680: Clarify
>> >         CRLF behavior in multiline strings (amendment to #569)
>> > 
>> > >         Sebastian,
>> > > 
>> > >         As the shepherd you're expected to motivate your decision
>> > >         (typically with a summary of the proposal) to guide us toward
>> > >         a collective decision.
>> > > 
>> > >         For the record, in this case, the change is that all
>> > >         characters considered as `newline` by the report (\r, \n, and
>> > >         a couple others) from the file's text are replaced by a single
>> > >         `\n` in a multiline string. This isn't what the current
>> > >         implementation does, if I understand correctly. But GHC 9.12
>> > >         isn't released, and I think that Brandon considers the current
>> > >         implementation to be a bug, because his motivation for the
>> > >         design is to match what `unline . line` does.
>> > > 
>> > >         I have absolutely no opinion on whether keeping \r\n or
>> > >         converting to \n is preferable. So I'm happy to defer to
>> > >         Sebastian.
>> > > 
>> > >         On Mon, 11 Nov 2024 at 17:31, Sebastian Graf
>> > >         <sgraf1337 at gmail.com <mailto:sgraf1337 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> > > 
>> > >             Dear Committee,
>> > > 
>> > >             I vote accept on this very small clarifying amendment.
>> > > 
>> > >             Cheers,
>> > >             Sebastian
>> > > 
>> > > 
>> > >             ------ Originalnachricht ------
>> > >             Von "Adam Gundry" <adam at well-typed.com
>> > >             <mailto:adam at well-typed.com>>
>> > >             An ghc-steering-committee at haskell.org
>> > >             <mailto:ghc-steering-committee at haskell.org>
>> > >             Datum 11.11.2024 09:11:43
>> > >             Betreff [ghc-steering-committee] Please review #680:
>> > >             Clarify CRLF
>> > >             behavior in multiline strings (amendment to #569)
>> > > 
>> > >             >Dear Committee,
>> > >             >
>> > >             >Brandon Chinn proposes to amend proposal #569, which
>> > >             introduced MultilineStrings, to clarify its treatment of
>> > >             \r\n vs \n:
>> > >             >
>> > >             >https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/680
>> > >             <https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals/pull/680>
>> > >             >
>> > >             >Sebastian has volunteered to act as shepherd.
>> > >             >
>> > >             >Please guide us to a conclusion as outlined in
>> > >             >https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals#committee-process <https://github.com/ghc-proposals/ghc-proposals#committee-process>
>> > >             >
>> > >             >Cheers,
>> > >             >
>> > >             >Adam
>> > >             >
>> > >             >-- Adam Gundry, Haskell Consultant
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