Re: [Haskell-cafe] Comment Syntax

On 07/06/2011 10:45, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:

On 7 June 2011 17:41, Guy wrote:

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On 06/06/2011 22:14, Evan Laforge wrote:

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Back to Haskell: I agree, the choice of the comment delimiter was not the best in light of the possibility to define operators containing it as a substring. But changing it to have "--|" start a comment too might break too much code (and eliminating "--" as a comment starter would certainly break far too much code).

I like that you have to put a space in for haddock comments.

I originally posted because I found that --| stood out much more clearly as a structured comment than -- |.

How does a missing space character make that stand out any more? :/

(Admittedly, I rely more on emacs using a different colour for Haddock comments than non-Haddock comments.)

Try it without emacs :-)