GHC's CPP and Cabal's unlit

Duncan Coutts duncan.coutts at worc.ox.ac.uk
Thu Jan 31 10:58:52 EST 2008


On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 15:46 +0000, Alistair Bayley wrote:
> > To be honest, it's not clear to me that we need any distinction at all
> > since people can just swap the order of the comments:
> >
> > -- some more comments about x
> > --
> > -- | A description of x
> >
> > x = ...
> 
> Yes, this is not a good motivating example, just an example. However,
> a good motivating example is named chunks, which we use in Takusen's
> Database.Enumerator module. The chucks are all placed at the end of
> the file. A given chunk may contain many paragraphs, but it must
> consist of a single comment block. Separate chunks must be in separate
> comment blocks (I assume; I haven't actually tested this).

Ok, yes. So how about what I just implemented, that you put two blank
lines between the named chunks?

Duncan



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