On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 17:12 +0100, Neil Mitchell wrote: > Hi > > I can see problems with this. This comes up when typing windows file path's: > > "C:\path to my\directory\boo" > > If this now reports no errors, who wants to guess which come up as > escape codes, and which don't. The way other languages like C# have > dealt with this is by introducing a new type of quoted string: > > @":\/" > > In a @" string, there are no escape characters, except for "" which > means ". There are various other quoting mechanisms available - but > all have the problem of being yet another thing to learn.
I really like this in C# and wouldn't mind something similar in a future Haskell. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
