On 2011-06-06 13:39 -0400, Nick Bowler wrote:
On 2011-06-06 13:08 -0400, Albert Y. C. Lai wrote:
Recall that the problem is not with isolated characters, but whole strings. [...] in LaTeX, "%%@#$&^*" is a comment.
This example probably does not help your position.
Since (La)TeX allows the comment character to be changed at any time, the above is not necessarily a comment. Furthermore, even with the default character classifications, \% does not introduce a comment. \% not introducing a comment in (La)TeX doesn't seem a whole lot different from --- not introducing a comment in Haskell.
And as was pointed out elsethread, --- /does/ in fact introduce a comment in Haskell. So the above should read: \% ... doesn't seem a whole lot different from --| ... -- Nick Bowler, Elliptic Technologies (http://www.elliptictech.com/)