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[Simon Peyton-Jones]

Perfectly sensible suggestion, but too late for the H98 Report,
I'm afraid.  It's time to freeze it.

Simon

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| From: D.Wakeling@exeter.ac.uk [mailto:D.Wakeling@exeter.ac.uk]=20
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| To: haskell@haskell.org
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| Hello,
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| Is there any reason why the "gap" in a string literal is defined as
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| 	gap -> \whitechar {whitechar}\
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| (in Section 2.6 of the report), rather than=20
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|         gap -> \whitespace\
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| ? The second, more liberal, definition of "gap" seems more=20
| natural. Moreover, it would allow comments in the gaps, which=20
| I would find useful. For example,
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|         classHeader :: String
|         classHeader =3D "\xca\xfe\xba\xbe\     -- magic number
|                       \\x00\x03\             -- minor version
|                       \\x00\x2d"             -- major version
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| David
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