ghc-5.02.2 cannot parse string gaps

[Simon Marlow]

> Section 2.6. of the Haskell report says:
>=20
> A string may include a "gap"---two backslants enclosing white
> characters---which is ignored. This allows one to write long=20
> strings on
> more than one line by writing a backslant at the end of one=20
> line and at
> the start of the next. For example,
>=20
> "Here is a backslant \\ as well as \137, \
>     \a numeric escape character, and \^X, a control character."
>=20
>=20
>=20
> 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.

It works ok here.  There's a well-known problem with string gaps in =
conjunction with CPP; see=20

http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/set/options-phases.html#C-PRE-PROC=
ESSOR

If this isn't the problem, could you send us a complete module which =
fails to compile?

Cheers,
	Simon