Mon Mar 31 15:26:03 PDT 2008 Simon Marlow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* proposal: remove string gaps
Hm. This has escaped me.
I don't find the rationale as documented on the Wikipage
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/haskell-prime/wiki/RemoveStringGaps
very convincing at all. I've thus added a few
Hi Henrik,
In reality, string gaps are unusable in practice, because of GHC and
-cpp. We had some in Yhc at one point, and then breakage happened, so
we removed them.
To quote from the page:
* string gaps cause problems with CPP, which doesn't like the
backslash at the end of the line. (a
Hi Neil,
If you have two features battling each other, you probably need to
remove one of them. CPP isn't going to be removed, which kind of
forces the issue...
Well, for the record, I've used both CPP and string gaps
extensively. And all I've done is to be careful to run CPP
only where
Tue Apr 1 14:46:12 PDT 2008 Simon Marlow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* add RecordPatternMatching and Disambiguate Record Fields
M ./status.hs +4
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Henrik Nilsson wrote:
Mon Mar 31 15:26:03 PDT 2008 Simon Marlow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* proposal: remove string gaps
Hm. This has escaped me.
Not surprising - it wasn't discussed anywhere else, I just thought I
should bring it up as a possibility to consider.
I don't find the rationale
I wonder if I should suggest removing all those strange ascii esacpe
sequences next...
Well, in contrast to string gaps, I don't think I've ever used those!
/Henrik
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I concur! i use them in quite a few places. If anything, I would like
some more powerful style of quoting, like triple quotes in python.
John
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On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 09:47:30PM +0100, Neil Mitchell wrote:
* string gaps cause problems with CPP, which doesn't like the
backslash at the end of the line. (a minor consideration, since CPP is
not part of the language, and in any case there is cpphs).
Between the two, I'd say CPP is the
Hi
If you have two features battling each other, you probably need to
remove one of them. CPP isn't going to be removed, which kind of
forces the issue...
Well, for the record, I've used both CPP and string gaps
extensively. And all I've done is to be careful to run CPP
only
John Meacham:
On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 09:47:30PM +0100, Neil Mitchell wrote:
* string gaps cause problems with CPP, which doesn't like the
backslash at the end of the line. (a minor consideration, since CPP
is
not part of the language, and in any case there is cpphs).
Between the two,
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