On 2007-08-16, Kim-Ee Yeoh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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
It's a circular list of characters. Quite feasible to do at compile time. -- Aaron Denney -><- _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
