[Haskell-cafe] Re: Hackage on Linux

[Andrew Coppin]

Felipe Lessa wrote:
> On 8/27/10, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic <ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Admittedly, Haskell has no multi-line
>> String support which would make defining something like the
>> "Description" field harder...
>>     
>
> Quick correction: Haskell *does* have multi-line strings. For example:
>
>     "This is a\
>     \ nice string"
>
> Note, however, that CPP doesn't like them.
>   

Heh, well I'm not bothered about CPP, but knowing this might be useful 
someday...