literate comments

[Udo Stenzel]

begin  ajb at spamcop.net  quote:
> Quoting Steffen Mazanek <steffen.mazanek at unibw-muenchen.de>:
> 
> > Would it make sense, to add a xml like code environment
> > as well, e.g., <code>...</code>?
> 
> It's hard to say.  The problem is that some Haskell characters are also
> important for XML (e.g. <, &) and so you can't just cut and paste valid
> Haskell inside a <code>...</code> wrapper and expect it to work without
> some additional markup.

You could use a CDATA section:

<code><[CDATA[
...haskell code goes here...
]]></code>

This way the only character sequence you have to avoid in the code is
]]>, which isn't really a restriction.


Udo.
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