[Haskell-cafe] Re: Layout rule

[Ben Rudiak-Gould]

Ketil Malde wrote:
> Multi line comments are nice for commenting out blocks of code.

They're also nice for comments within a line. E.g. haskell-src-exts contains 
the declaration

   data HsQualConDecl
           = HsQualConDecl SrcLoc
               {- forall -} [HsName] {- . -} HsContext {- => -} HsConDecl

Probably half of my uses of {- -} begin and end on the same line.

-- Ben