A HERE Document syntax

Duncan Coutts duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk
Fri Apr 24 06:32:23 EDT 2009


On Wed, 2009-04-22 at 20:52 -0700, Jason Dusek wrote:
> The conventional HERE document operator -- `<<` -- is not a
>   good fit for Haskell. It's a perfectly legal user-level
>   operator. I'd like to propose the use of backticks for HERE
>   documents.

Just to say that I think this proposal is definitely worth considering.

I've not looked at all the details yet, but we should. See also some
comments on reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/8ereh/a_here_document_syntax/


Duncan



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