ghc-5.02.2 cannot parse string gaps

[Michael Marte]

Hello *,

Section 2.6. of the Haskell report says:

A string may include a "gap"---two backslants enclosing white
characters---which is ignored. This allows one to write long strings on
more than one line by writing a backslant at the end of one line and at
the start of the next. For example,

"Here is a backslant \\ as well as \137, \
    \a numeric escape character, and \^X, a control character."



ghc-5.02.2 cannot parse string gaps.
It accepts \ at the end of a line but not at the beginning of the
following line.

Michael