[Haskell-cafe] Comment Syntax

[Guy]

On 07/06/2011 10:45, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:
> 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.)

Try it without emacs :-)