Iavor Diatchki wrote:
Hello, Is there a reason why we have to escape the character ' (apostrophe) when used in a character literal? For example, we have to write '\'' instead of '''. (With syntax highlighting, the second is a lot better looking than the first.) It seems that in this case we do not need the escape because a literal contains exactly one character. If there is no good reason for having the scape, I think that we should remove this restriction in Haskell'. -Iavor
If you really want you can also allow an unescapped backslash, '\'. The rules for parsing character literals would become something like:
case input of ''' -> a single quote '\'' -> a single quote '\' -> a backslash '\..' -> an escape 'a' -> a normal character I'm not saying this is a good idea, just that it is possible. :) Twan _______________________________________________ Haskell-prime mailing list Haskell-prime@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime
