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>

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