[Haskell-cafe] Comment Syntax

[Ivan Lazar Miljenovic]

On 3 June 2011 20:32, Daniel Schoepe <daniel.schoepe at googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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

I _knew_ I had seen "-->" somewhere... *glares at Hayoo for not
returning said results*.

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