[Haskell-cafe] some ideas for Haskell', from Python

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On 2009 Jan 14, at 10:26, Neil Mitchell wrote:
>>>>  As an example:
>>>>      foo = u"abc\N{VULGAR FRACTION ONE HALF}"
>>>
>>> Hmm, looks nice, and sensible. But as soon as you've got \N{....}  
>>> syntax I want:
>>>
>>> "foo\E{show i}bar"
>>>
>>> i.e. embed expressions in strings. I think this would be fantastic.
>>
>> why not simpy "foo\E{i}bar" ?
>
> What if i is a string? You'd get: foo"i"bar
>
> Having different behaviour for string vs everything else would be  
> equally bad.

...except that show already *has* different behavior for String vs.  
everything else.

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