[Haskell-cafe] I hate constructing strings with ++

[Johan Tibell]

On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Thomas Hartman <tphyahoo at gmail.com> wrote:
> I hate constructing strings with ++. Especially icky when you start
> dealing with escape characters and stuff.
>
> cabal install HStringTemplateHelpers
>
> .....
>
> import Text.StringTemplate.Helpers
> putStrLn $ render1 [("name",name)] "Why, hello, $name$"

I once wrote a simple library for "classical" $-substitution. I plan
to upgrade it to use Data.Text (efficient bytestring like
representation for Unicode strings) whenever that's release.

http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/template

Cheers,

Johan