On Sun, Dec 09, 2001 at 09:50:18PM +0100, Feliks Kluzniak wrote:

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while the report (and hugs) believe "--+ 1" is a comment.

If a bystander is allowed to comment...

Actually, the newer versions of the report say you can use "--" to begin a legal lexeme (Sec. 2.3, p. 6).

Euch. Is --- the start of a comment? Either way the lexical syntax needs to be changed, either to comment -> dashes {any}<symbol {any}> newline dashes -> -- {-} or to comment -> dashes {any}<symbol {any}> newline dashes -> -- Thanks Ian