module Test where
chars =
foo
bar
this line is in error and it is line 7
ghc test.lhs
test.lhs:5: parse error on input `in'
It turns out that in the script I am writing
(semi-automatic generation of a grammar file)
being able to use the above notation for multilined
I've attached a diff of the changes I've made so far - they
are changes
to make it work rather than the correct way to fix it, though.
Thanks. I've fixed the 'ld -x' problem. You also appear to need an
extra -L path to find the readline library - we don't have proper
provision for this at
chars =
foo
bar
You *are* violating the Haskell 98 spec, I'm afraid :)
No he isn't. At least, I can't find anything in the Report which
disallows literal newline characters in a string literal.
Oh, hold on. The production
string - { graphic_|` | space | escape | gap }
does
Malcolm Wallace wrote:
[snip]
No he isn't. At least, I can't find anything in the Report which
disallows literal newline characters in a string literal.
Oh, hold on. The production
string - { graphic_|` | space | escape | gap }
does seem to disallow newline characters. But it
On the contrary I'm glad to see that the Haskell standard is so sensible.
I edit Haskell using XEmacs, and I don't want to have to do an octal
or hexadecimal dump of my source code to determine whether a string
contains a tab, newline, return, line feed, Unicode en-space (there are
several
