[Haskell-cafe] Comment Syntax

[Ivan Lazar Miljenovic]

On 7 June 2011 17:41, Guy <guytsalmaves-h at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On 06/06/2011 22:14, Evan Laforge wrote:
>>>
>>> Back to Haskell: I agree, the choice of the comment delimiter was not the
>>> best in light of the possibility to define operators containing it as a
>>> substring. But changing it to have "--|" start a comment too might break
>>> too much code (and eliminating "--" as a comment starter would certainly
>>> break far too much code).
>>
>> I like that you have to put a space in for haddock comments.
>
> I originally posted because I found that --| stood out much more clearly as
> a structured comment than -- |.

How does a missing space character make that stand out any more? :/

(Admittedly, I rely more on emacs using a different colour for Haddock
comments than non-Haddock comments.)

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