[nhc-bugs] RE: Literate scripts not handled correctly

[Malcolm Wallace]

> Then I think hugs and nhc98 are wrong.  The report states that the
> unliterate version of the file is recovered by "taking only those lines
> beginning with '>', and removing the first character of those lines",
> which would leave the lines indented by a single space, not two.

This would appear to be an un-remarked change to the Report since
version 1.2.  That version states that "program lines have the
leading '>' replaced by a leading space, to preserve tab alignments".
Version 1.3 removed this specification, and the changed specification
only appeared in Haskell'98.

I would like to submit it as a bug in the Report - the older
specification, as implemented by Hugs and nhc98 makes more sense in
conjunction with the layout rule.

Regards,
    Malcolm