[Haskell-cafe] Comment Syntax

[Daniel Schoepe]

On Fri, 03 Jun 2011 12:19:31 +0300, Guy <guytsalmaves-h at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On 03/06/2011 12:01, Malcolm Wallace wrote:
> > I believe the motivating example that persuaded the Language Committee to allow these symbols was
> >       -->
> > which is not of course used anywhere in the standard libraries, but is an extremely nice symbol to have available in user code.
> 
> Seeing as no library actually defines such a symbol, is it worth forcing an extra space into comments? [..]

That's not true, xmonad[0] for example defines a -->-operator; and I
would find making exceptions for --| and --^ very inconsistent and
annoying.

[0] http://xmonad.org/xmonad-docs/xmonad/XMonad-ManageHook.html#v%3A--%3E
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