> Does anybody with their elbows in the
> code think variable interpolation and/or
> multi-line strings are good/doable ideas?
> Would this be the sort of change one could make
> without a lot of previous familiarity with
> the implementation of Hugs/Ghc?
> It would be a *signifigant* boon to those
> of us trying to get haskell into organizations
> by using it as "maintainable perl/sh", and
> generally make an already delightful language
> more delightful.
I once wondered about translating
"aaa \$bbb ccc"
into
"aaa " ++ show bbb ++ " ccc"
(before you check, \$ isn't a valid escape sequence in Haskell 98). Of course, you
could go all the way and do it properly:
http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~partain/haskerl/partain-1.html
Cheers,
Simon
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