-XMultilineStrings merged!

!12089: Implement multiline strings · Merge requests · Glasgow Haskell Compiler / GHC · GitLab just merged, which adds multiline string support ti Haskell! Not only does it add support for multiline strings, it also refactors string literal parsing that improves both compile-time performance + memory usage by 25%!

Huge thanks to @simonpj, @mpickering, @int-index, @sgraf, and so many more for helping throughout the project.

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Nice! It’s a big undertaking to go through the entire process by yourself (designing a feature, writing a proposal for it, then doing the implementation, getting your code reviewed, etc), but the end result is always worth it! Congrats.

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Quality of life significantly improving.

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Wonderful news, I’m excited to use this soon!

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Awesome work, congratulations!

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Man I really wanna like this post… but the likes are at such a nice number :thinking:

I appreciate the effort, though, and want to thank you for the hard work :muscle:

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