[Haskell-cafe] Type system madness

[Philip Armstrong]

On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 04:58:43PM -0400, Steve Schafer wrote:
>On Thu, 12 Jul 2007 21:24:24 +0100, you wrote:
>
>>Given that (IIRC) the BOM is just a valid unicode non-breaking space,
>>your scripts really ought to cope...
>
>Choking on the BOM is probably just a symptom of a deeper problem. My
>bet is that removing the BOM would simply delay the failure until the
>first non-ASCII character was encountered.

Indeed. However, I can imagine that the author might well want to use
unicode characters in string literals and comments, where they would
be entirely inocuous (since a utf-8 string is a valid ascii string)
but the BOM at the beginning of the file breaks things.

Phil

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