4 Jun
2011
4 Jun
'11
6:20 a.m.
* Andrew Coppin
On 03/06/2011 05:02 PM, Albert Y. C. Lai wrote:
I propose that only {- -} is comment; that is, -- is an operator token and not a marker of comments.
I'm curious to know why anybody thought that "--" was a good comment marker in the first place. (I'm curious because Haskell isn't the only language to have made this strange choice.)
It is, for my taste, a good comment marker, because of its resemblance to a dash. It makes the code look like real text: let y = x + 1 -- increment x -- Roman I. Cheplyaka :: http://ro-che.info/