What about Literate Haskell then? People write a lot of LH blog posts, so it would seem to be quite flexible. <div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div>Krzysztof Skrzętnicki<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 16:13, Dave Bayer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bayer@cpw.math.columbia.edu">bayer@cpw.math.columbia.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">Part of the dominance of scripting languages is clean support for heredocs. So much of every arena of life comes down to getting "It's not about me!" I love Haskell but it doesn't get this. Imagine a document that's nominally Haskell, but about 80% some other language such as TeX (e.g. code for a self-generating textbook). Anything short of "these lines belong to the other language, with not a single intervening character in the way" simply doesn't work. So, yes, Haskell supports multi-line strings, but not heredocs, a subtle but crucial syntactic distinction. Restated, one can cut and paste many entire lines of foreign code into a heredoc, with no worries about conversion.<br>
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Heredocs should be part of the base spec of any credible language, with the requirement "Can the language completely disappear behind another language, in the source file?" As I said, the key issue is getting "It's not about me!"<br>
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On Jun 28, 2011, at 1:57 AM, Jean-Marie Gaillourdet wrote:<br>
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> Hi Audrey,<br>
><br>
> are you aware that Haskell already supports multi-line strings?<br>
><br>
> foo = "This is a\<br>
> \multi-line\<br>
> \string!"<br>
><br>
> See Section 2.6 of <a href="http://haskell.org/onlinereport/lexemes.html" target="_blank">http://haskell.org/onlinereport/lexemes.html</a><br>
><br>
> Regards,<br>
> Jean<br>
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