[Haskell-cafe] Comment Syntax

[Guy]

On 07/06/2011 10:55, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:
> Another argument against special-casing "--|": what happens if you
> want to use a _different_ documentation generator (I don't know why
> you would, but someone might) than Haddock, which uses a different
> markup identifier?

We can declare new operators - why not new comment delimiters? That way Haddock could define --| and --^, other 
generators could declare whatever they wanted.

The downside of this is that Haddock would have to be imported into every file which uses the markup.