3 Jun
2011
3 Jun
'11
5:12 p.m.
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.) I once tried defining a "++" operator and then when I went to define a matching "--" operator...