[Haskell-cafe] multi-line strings (Was: Hackage on Linux)

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Samstag, den 28.08.2010, 08:18 +1000 schrieb Ivan Lazar Miljenovic:
> On 28 August 2010 00:02, Felipe Lessa <felipe.lessa at gmail.com> 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"
> 
> I meant in the sense of Python, etc. where you didn't have to insert
> newline characters, etc. in.

A similar problem is solved by 
http://github.com/jgm/hsb2hs
which might be useful if you need to embed larger pieces of text.

Greetings,
Joachim

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