Hello Manuel, Thursday, February 02, 2006, 3:40:26 AM, you wrote: MMTC> I am against such a change. The change would break existing software MMTC> (eg, Yampa) and secondly I don't buy the "main sources of MMTC> confusion for beginners" argument. The confusion arises only when a MMTC> single line comment is used to uncomment a set of characters that start MMTC> with a special symbol. That's a situation that doesn't arise that MMTC> often. (I'd actually be very happy if the main sources of confusion fpr MMTC> beginners where of such simple syntactic nature.) well, i'm as beginner was runned to this situation enough often 1) "|" is a special char 2) non-ascii chars are also treated by GHC as special, and i prefer to write comments in Russian ;) -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:bulatz@HotPOP.com