[Haskell-cafe] Comment Syntax

[Henning Thielemann]

Nicolas Wu schrieb:
> This whole discussion is reminding me of Wadler's Law of Language
> Design [1], it's nice to see that in 15 years things haven't changed
> much!
> 
>    WADLER'S LAW OF LANGUAGE DESIGN
>    In any language design, the total time spent discussing
>    a feature in this list is proportional to two raised to
>    the power of its position.
>         0. Semantics
>         1. Syntax
>         2. Lexical syntax
>         3. Lexical syntax of comments
> 
> [1] http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~curry,/listarchive/0017.html

It's the first time, that I see a discussion about comment syntax in
Haskell-Cafe.