"Brian Boutel" <brian@nzcs.org.nz> writes: > > Sigbjorn Finne wrote: > > > > > > What does the language definition say about this? > > > > Nothing at all, I believe, but [...] > > Actually, Appendix B3 of the Haskell 98 Report says > [....] That deals with Haskell lexical syntax, and not the interpretation of \t during IO. --sigbjorn