remove-string-gaps.md

 # Proposal: remove string gaps
 
 
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 String gaps are barely necessary, being only a small syntactic convenience. e.g.
 
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 ```wiki
 f = "abc\
     \def"
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 can be written
 
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 ```wiki
 f = "abc" ++
     "def"
@@ -19,8 +22,14 @@ f = "abc" ++
 
 GHC compiles the same code in both cases.
 
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 ## Pros
 
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 - simplifies the lexical syntax (good for automatic syntax colouring tools, which often get string gaps wrong).
 
 - a better alternative is HereDocuments?
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 ## Cons
 
-- string gaps are sometimes really helpful for formatting/pretty printing code neatly; the ++ alternative often necessecitates
-  additional bracketing
 
 - breaks some code
 
-- the simplification of the lexical syntax is very minor
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-- arguably, the syntax highlighting ought to be fixed as that's what at fault, not the language as such
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 - naive compilers won't implement the optimisation, and hence will perform an unnecessary append.