Aaron Denney wrote: > > On 2007-08-15, Pekka Karjalainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> A little style issue here on the side, if I may. You don't need to use >> (++) to join multiline string literals. >> >> text = "If you want to have multiline string literals \ >> \in your source code, you can break them up with \ >> \backslashes. Any whitespace characters between \ >> \two backslashes will be ignored." > > I find the first far more readable. The compiler should be able to > assemble it all at compile time, right? >
'Course not. The (++) function like all Haskell functions is only a /promise/ to do its job. What does "assembling at compile time" mean here: s = "I will not write infinite loops " ++ s -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Hints-for-Euler-Problem-11-tf4114963.html#a12188224 Sent from the Haskell - Haskell-Cafe mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe