patch applied (haskell-prime-report): fix line-comment syntax to not consider apos; --:apos; as a comment

2006-11-07 Thread Simon Marlow
Tue Nov 7 08:22:46 PST 2006 Simon Marlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] * fix line-comment syntax to not consider '--:' as a comment See LineCommentSyntax on the wiki, ticket #42 M ./report/syntax-lexical.verb -1 +1 ___ Haskell-prime mailing list

Re[2]: Comment Syntax

2006-02-03 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello John, Friday, February 03, 2006, 3:39:38 AM, you wrote: Got a unicode-compliant compiler? JM sure do :) JM but it currently doesn't recognize any unicode characters as possible JM operators. are you read this? :) Log: Add support for UTF-8 source files GHC finally has

RE: Comment Syntax

2006-02-03 Thread Simon Marlow
On 03 February 2006 00:40, John Meacham wrote: On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 06:19:43PM -0600, Taral wrote: Got a unicode-compliant compiler? sure do :) but it currently doesn't recognize any unicode characters as possible operators. which it should, but I am just not sure how to specify that

RE: Unicode, was Comment Syntax

2006-02-03 Thread Simon Marlow
On 03 February 2006 04:07, Taral wrote: On 2/2/06, John Meacham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but it currently doesn't recognize any unicode characters as possible operators. which it should, but I am just not sure how to specify that yet until some sort of standard develops. Once there are more

Re: Comment Syntax

2006-02-02 Thread Josef Svenningsson
significantly worse error messages? My point here was not that the error messages was that terrible. I just wanted to point out to Manuel that it does happen that single line comments start with a symbol. Which makes the current comment syntax somewhat awkward. Cheers,/Josef

Re[2]: Comment Syntax

2006-02-02 Thread Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Manuel, Thursday, February 02, 2006, 3:40:26 AM, you wrote: MMTC I am against such a change. The change would break existing software MMTC (eg, Yampa) and secondly I don't buy the main sources of MMTC confusion for beginners argument. The confusion arises only when a MMTC single line

Re: Comment Syntax

2006-02-02 Thread Wolfgang Jeltsch
Am Montag, 30. Januar 2006 17:24 schrieb Taral: On 1/30/06, Thomas Davie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It gives you regexp and nothing more - this makes it a pain in the arse to input every possible character that is/isn't allowed. Steal it from places (vim): syn match hsLineComment

Re: Comment Syntax

2006-02-02 Thread Taral
On 2/2/06, Wolfgang Jeltsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Montag, 30. Januar 2006 17:24 schrieb Taral: On 1/30/06, Thomas Davie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It gives you regexp and nothing more - this makes it a pain in the arse to input every possible character that is/isn't allowed. Steal

Re: Comment Syntax

2006-02-02 Thread John Meacham
On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 06:19:43PM -0600, Taral wrote: Got a unicode-compliant compiler? sure do :) but it currently doesn't recognize any unicode characters as possible operators. which it should, but I am just not sure how to specify that yet until some sort of standard develops. Once there

Unicode, was Comment Syntax

2006-02-02 Thread Taral
On 2/2/06, John Meacham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but it currently doesn't recognize any unicode characters as possible operators. which it should, but I am just not sure how to specify that yet until some sort of standard develops. Once there are more unicode compliant compilers out there

Re: Comment Syntax

2006-02-01 Thread Josef Svenningsson
munch. I know there are plenty of people who agree with you. But there are those that agree with my standpoint as well. I'm not going to propose that we start arguing about this. I suppose we'll have to use other arguments to persuade each other about the comment syntax. /Josef

Re: Comment Syntax

2006-02-01 Thread Henrik Nilsson
Hi all, To corroborate Wadler's law further. Josef wrote: Oh yes, it does happen that a single line comment begins with a special symbol. It has happened to me on several occations when using haddock annotation to my source code. It is all to easy to forget that extra space. With

Re: Comment Syntax

2006-02-01 Thread Creighton Hogg
On Thu, 2 Feb 2006, Henrik Nilsson wrote: Hi all, To corroborate Wadler's law further. Josef wrote: Oh yes, it does happen that a single line comment begins with a special symbol. It has happened to me on several occations when using haddock annotation to my source code. It is

Re: Comment Syntax

2006-01-30 Thread Thomas Davie
On 30 Jan 2006, at 14:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Thomas Davie [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 30 Jan 2006, at 14:28, Neil Mitchell wrote: Another argument in favour of this is that most editors with syntax hilighting will show -- as a comment, which again increases the confusion factor.

Re: Comment Syntax

2006-01-30 Thread lennart
Quoting Thomas Davie [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I agree, this is not a great argument, but the fact that the language is inconsistent, and that it confuses people easily, and can't come up with great error messages when it does go wrong, (my original arguments) really are good arguments for fixing