syntax...(strings/interpolation/here docs)

[Simon Marlow]

> Does anybody with their elbows in the
> code think variable interpolation and/or
> multi-line strings are good/doable ideas?=20
> Would this be the sort of change one could make
> without a lot of previous familiarity with
> the implementation of Hugs/Ghc?
> It would be a *signifigant* boon to those
> of us trying to get haskell into organizations
> by using it as "maintainable perl/sh", and
> generally make an already delightful language
> more delightful.

I once wondered about translating

	"aaa \$bbb ccc"

into

	"aaa " ++ show bbb ++ " ccc"

(before you check, \$ isn't a valid escape sequence in Haskell 98).  Of =
course, you could go all the way and do it properly:

   http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~partain/haskerl/partain-1.html

Cheers,
	Simon