On Fri, 16 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> (Btw, does anybody know why ghc4.02 complains about comments starting
> with a character different from space (like in ``--:: type'')? This is
> certainly not intended, is it?)
Last I heard this was a deliberate feature of Haskell 98 so you can
define, e.g., -->, -->--, etc as operators. I think a `--' now only starts
a comment if its can't be parsed as part of a longer symbol (e.g.,
"--< Comment >" doesnt work but "--comment" or "-- comment" do.)
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