</screen>
<para>GHCi interprets the whole line as an expression to evaluate.
- The expression may not span several lines - as soon as you press
- enter, GHCi will attempt to evaluate it.</para>
+ The expression may not span several lines - as soon as you press enter,
+ GHCi will attempt to evaluate it.</para>
+
+ <para>GHCi also has a multiline mode,
+ <indexterm><primary><literal>:set +m</literal></primary></indexterm>,
+ which is terminated by an empty line:</para>
+
+<screen>
+Prelude> :set +m
+Prelude> let x = 42 in x / 9
+Prelude|
+4.666666666666667
+Prelude>
+</screen>
+
+ <para>In Haskell, a <literal>let</literal> expression is followed
+ by <literal>in</literal>. However, in GHCi, since the expression
+ can also be interpreted in the <literal>IO</literal> monad,
+ a <literal>let</literal> binding with no accompanying
+ <literal>in</literal> statement can be signalled by an empty line,
+ as in the above example.</para>
+
+ <para>Multiline mode is useful when entering monadic
+ <literal>do</literal> statements:</para>
+
+<screen>
+Control.Monad.State> flip evalStateT 0 $ do
+Control.Monad.State| i <- get
+Control.Monad.State| lift $ do
+Control.Monad.State| putStrLn "Hello World!"
+Control.Monad.State| print i
+Control.Monad.State|
+"Hello World!"
+0
+Control.Monad.State>
+</screen>
+
+ <para>During a multiline interaction, the user can interrupt and
+ return to the top-level prompt.</para>
+
+<screen>
+Prelude> do
+Prelude| putStrLn "Hello, World!"
+Prelude| ^C
+Prelude>
+</screen>
</sect1>
<sect1 id="loading-source-files">
<varlistentry>
<term>
+ <literal>:script</literal> <optional><replaceable>n</replaceable></optional>
+ <literal>filename</literal>
+ <indexterm><primary><literal>:script</literal></primary></indexterm>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Executes the lines of a file as a series of GHCi commands. This command
+ is compatible with multiline statements as set by <literal>:set +m</literal>
+ </para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
<literal>:set</literal> <optional><replaceable>option</replaceable>...</optional>
<indexterm><primary><literal>:set</literal></primary></indexterm>
</term>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term>
+ <literal>+m</literal>
+ <indexterm><primary><literal>+m</literal></primary></indexterm>
+ </term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Enable parsing of multiline commands. A multiline command
+ is prompted for when the current input line contains open layout
+ contexts.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>
<literal>+r</literal>
<indexterm><primary><literal>+r</literal></primary></indexterm>
<indexterm><primary>CAFs</primary><secondary>in GHCi</secondary></indexterm>