Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 21:21:00 +0100 From: Dmitri Pissarenko
Hello!
I'm curious what experienced Haskellers think about using literate Haskell in daily work.
It seems to me like a good idea, since during coding it often helps to write down one's thoughts (often, I find a solution to a complicated problem in this way).
I use LHS by default. Here's some stats on the single LHS file I've been hacking away at: Lines of comments over code: 53% Char count of comments/code: 49% This is for a 754-line file. I'm real big on notes/comments, since I have often stared in bewilderment at my own code years later wondering what the heck I was doing. The puzzlement is unusual; normally, it's a good laugh. I use TextPad, and some of the comments are sidelined Haskell snippets, like on a pasteboard. Syntax coloring is active throughout the file, except in comments enclosed by "--/", which is my little kludge on TextPad to get it to work out right. Works nicely so far.