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Issue created Apr 16, 2007 by malcolm wallace@trac-malcolm.wallace

illegal chars accepted in literal strings

Ghc accepts literal tab characters inside literal strings, even though these are not permitted by Haskell'98. Example:

Prelude> "^I" "\t" Prelude>

Other compilers correctly reject them:

nhc98> "^I" Error at line 1, column 2: Tab in literal string/char. Use \t instead.

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Type Bug
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Priority normal
Resolution Unresolved
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