Here-docs in Haskell source
John Goerzen
jgoerzen at complete.org
Sat Sep 23 17:35:51 EDT 2006
On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 11:54:42PM -0400, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
>
> John> indentation.
>
> Automatic indentation is only one aspect of Emacs modes, and as far as I
> am concerned not nearly the most important one.
>
> Here's a quick test: put the cursor in front of a triple-quoted string,
> then hit Control-Alt-F (forward-sexp). It should move just after the
> whole string. Does it?
Yes, it does.
But I don't think we should be limiting our language by what Emacs
does.
> Any tool which assumes strings are delimited by a single front delimiter
> and a single end delimiter, which they are in most reasonable languages,
> will have trouble.
Then the tools are buggy. What sort of tools are you thinking of
here?
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