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 <pumpkingod@gmail.com> wrote: From: Daniel Peebles <pumpkingod@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] "--" comments To: "michael rice" <nowgate@yahoo.com> 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 <nowgate@yahoo.com> 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> _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe