Re: GHC's CPP and Cabal's unlit

On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 11:14:44PM +0000, Alistair Bayley wrote:

Yes, choosing to use non-empty whitespace (to indicate that a comment block is not finished) might well be a poor design decision. Another possibility is to use a line containing a single period as a continuation line e.g.

line 1 . line 2

I think we do this in Cabal descriptions (copying the design from Debian package's descriptions), so this would be consistent with that. It gets my vote! Thanks Ian