[Haskell-cafe] Multi Line String literals

[Stefan O'Rear]

On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 01:43:09PM +0100, Joe Thornber wrote:
> On 26/04/07, Bas van Dijk <v.dijk.bas at gmail.com> wrote:
> >test = putStrLn $ toIsString $ do "I"
> >                                               "need"
> >                                               "MultiLine"
> >                                               "String"
> >                                               "literals!"
> 
> but it's simpler to just write something like:
> 
> test  = putStr $ unlines ["I",
>                                   "need",
>                                   "multiline",
>                                   "string",
>                                   "literals"]

How does

test  = putStr "I\n\
               \need\n\
               \multiline\n\
               \string\n\
               \literals\n"

look?

Stefan