Re: [Caml-list] Long constant strings?

[Brian Hurt <bhurt@spnz.org>]

On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, David Brown wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 06:35:42PM -0600, Brian Hurt wrote:
> > Am I missing some nice way of doing this?  If not, is there any chance 
> > that a future rev of the compiler will recognize this idiom and 
> > concatenate the strings at compile time?
> 
> Why not:
> 
>  let text = "\
>    \001\002\003\004\005\006\007\008\009\010\012\013\014\015\016\
>    \001\002\003\004\005\006\007\008\009\010\012\013\014\015\016\
>    ...
>    "
> 
> Dave
> 

Thank you!  That's *exactly* what I want.

My stupid.

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