Re: [xmonad] Changing module headers

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 9:59 AM, Gwern Branwen wrote:

On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Don Stewart wrote:

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So I mentioned a while ago I meant to go over XMC using the 'sim' tool (with an invocation like sim_mira `find . -name "*.hs"` - I discovered recently that it had Miranda support, which means quasi-Haskell support). But the results are littered with comments.

Particularly obnoxious are the module headers, in part because they all seem to use '--' comments even if they cover dozens of lines. Would anyone object if I were to edit those to use {- -} style (and push those edits without review)?

Yep. Let's not change the style. But change the tool to support the style.

I'm not familiar with 'sim'. What does it do?

-- Don

As in my previous email in April on the topic: sim is a tool for discovering textual repetition http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/xmonad/2009-April/007722.html It works reasonably well, but the output is much harder to read than it needs to be because of the module headers.

As you can see, mailman mangled my email, so I'm forwarding the original to you & Spencer (as the only 2 to reply).

So with a potentially long wait until the next major release (that is, not the quick fixes for X11/GHC), does anyone mind if I were to make these header changes? -- gwern