[trawling through old bug reports] On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 06:44:52PM +0000, Iavor Diatchki wrote: > there seems to be a problem when parsing multi-line strings: > in the first string there is no space after the \, > while in the second there is. i tried this on linux, > with the july version of hugs. > > > probelm = "hello \ > > \world" > > > noproblem = "hello \ > > \world" > > > the error i get is: > "Illegal character escape sequence "\w"
I think this one is also due to your use of the C preprocessor. The treatment of backslashes by cpp changed in recent versions of gcc. Adding the space is now a necessary workaround. People who don't use -F to run each source file through cpp are unaffected, of course. _______________________________________________ Hugs-Bugs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/hugs-bugs
