[Haskell] Re: comment vs varsym

Taral taralx at gmail.com
Fri Dec 9 00:46:54 EST 2005


On 12/8/05, Taral <taralx at gmail.com> wrote:
> or b) comment, because the maximal munch rule says so (it matches the newline):
>
> comment -> dashes [any<symbol> {any}] newline
> varsym -> (symbol {symbol | :})<reservedop | dashes>

Aha. Maximal munch only applies to non-whitespace, so Hugs is right. Yay.

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