tmhedberg/here

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tmhedberg/here.json

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  "createdAt": "2013-02-23T11:15:34Z",
  "defaultBranch": "master",
  "description": "Haskell here docs & interpolated strings via quasiquotation",
  "fullName": "tmhedberg/here",
  "homepage": "",
  "language": "Haskell",
  "name": "here",
  "pushedAt": "2025-01-13T17:54:33Z",
  "stargazersCount": 57,
  "topics": [],
  "updatedAt": "2025-01-13T17:54:37Z",
  "url": "https://github.com/tmhedberg/here"
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here

here is a package that adds support for multi-line string literals (a.k.a. “here docs”) and string interpolation to Haskell via GHC’s QuasiQuotes extension.

The quoted expressions behave like string literals in the source code; that is, they produce values of type String, or, with the OverloadedStrings language extension enabled, values of type IsString a => a.

The package includes six quasiquoters:

• here: Strips leading and trailing whitespace. This allows you to add a line break after the opening quote bracket, which looks nicer.
• hereLit: Quotes the here doc literally, with no whitespace stripping
• hereFile: Quotes a file’s contents as a here doc
• i: Like hereLit, but with the ability to interpolate the values of antiquoted Haskell expressions (bracketed by ${ and })
• iTrim: Like i, but trimming leading and trailing whitespace as with here
• template: Applies string interpolation to a file, as a simple template engine

Example

{-# LANGUAGE QuasiQuotes #-}

import Data.Char
import Data.String.Here

main = do let foo = "foo"
          putStrLn [i|"foo", when capitalized, is ${map toUpper foo}!|]
          putStrLn [here|
Hello world,

I am a multiline here doc!
|]

Output

"foo", when capitalized, is FOO!
Hello world,

I am a multiline here doc!