Apologies if this has been covered already... I've searched the haskell-prime list archive and not found anything on this.
I'd like to submit a request for a fairly trivial feature: multi-line text literals in source, AKA here-docs. You know, like the ruby/perl/bash <<EOD...EOD, or python's triple-quotes, or C#'s @"...". My motivation: primarly for embedding SQL statements in program text. I'm sure there are plenty of other uses... I'm aware of the trailing-\-leading-\ option, but IMHO that's almost on a par with ++ ".." for usability: if you have a chunk of text you need to paste into your program as a text literal, you must modify every line. I know this can be automated, but it's still an extra step, and if you need to extract it for editing, you have to strip off the surrounding crud. Here's an old related thread, but I can't tell if some conclusion was reached: http://www.mail-archive.com/haskell-cafe@haskell.org/msg01343.html Alistair _______________________________________________ Haskell-prime mailing list Haskell-prime@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime
