[Haskell-cafe] string literals and haskell'

[Derek Elkins]

On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 17:12 +0100, Neil Mitchell wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I can see problems with this. This comes up when typing windows file path's:
> 
> "C:\path to my\directory\boo"
> 
> If this now reports no errors, who wants to guess which come up as
> escape codes, and which don't. The way other languages like C# have
> dealt with this is by introducing a new type of quoted string:
> 
> @":\/"
> 
> In a @" string, there are no escape characters, except for "" which
> means ". There are various other quoting mechanisms available - but
> all have the problem of being yet another thing to learn.

I really like this in C# and wouldn't mind something similar in a future
Haskell.