[Haskell-cafe] multiline strings in haskell?

[Henning Thielemann]

On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Jason Dagit wrote:

> On Jan 12, 2006, at 1:34 AM, Henning Thielemann wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Michael Vanier wrote:
> >
> >> Is there any support for multi-line string literals in Haskell?  I've
> >> done a web search and come up empty.  I'm thinking of using
> >> Haskell to
> >> generate web pages and having multi-line strings would be very
> >> useful.
> >
> > Do you mean
> >
> > unlines ["first line", "second line", "third line"]
>
> The original poster probably meant something like this:
>
> let foo = "This is a
> long string
>
>
> Which does not end until the matching end quote."

I don't see the need for it, since

unlines [
  "first line",
  "second line",
  "third line"]

works as well.