Cool! Didn't know that, and the Haskell syntax I looked up made no mention of it.
Thanks,
Michael
--- On Fri, 12/11/09, Daniel Peebles wrote:
From: Daniel Peebles
Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] "--" comments
To: "michael rice"
Cc: haskell-cafe@haskell.org
Date: Friday, December 11, 2009, 11:33 PM
let (--*) = (+) in 5 --* 6===> 11
The comment is introduced by -- followed by a non-symbol (because if followed by a symbol, it might be an operator)
Hope this helps!
Dan
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 11:30 PM, michael rice wrote:
I'm just noticing that "--" comments don't seem to work properly when the first character following them is a '*'.
Michael
--*I like asterisks
--*I like asterisks
--*I like asterisks
--*I like asterisks
double x = x+x
Prelude> :l double
[1 of 1] Compiling Main ( double.hs, interpreted )
double.hs:1:0: parse error on input `--*'
Failed, modules loaded: none.
Prelude>
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