QuasiQuotes

a conceptually simple but crucial extension


QuasiQuotes

QuasiQuotes allow you to drop arbitrary text inside [foo|, |] brackets, where foo names your QuasiQuote compiler.

foothing = [foo|

Here I can put anything I want as long as it isn't a '|'
immediately followed by a ']'. The String will be fed
through the 'foo' function at *compile time*, which can
reject the input to force a compilation error, or
generate some Haskell abstract syntax tree that will be
compiled and used in place of the quasi quote. They are
in effect a way to package up user-defined literals
which may implement arbitrary DSLs.

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The magic is explained in Quasiquotation 101.


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