On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 5:34 AM, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Dec 11, 2009, at 23:30 , michael rice wrote: > > > > I'm just noticing that "--" comments don't seem to work properly when the > > first character following them is a '*'. > > I believe the spec only treats "-- " as a comment leader; this is why Haddock > markup has a space between the "--" and the markup.
The spec [1] treats anything that starts with two or more dashes not followed by a non-symbol to be the start of a comment. [1] http://www.haskell.org/onlinereport/syntax-iso.html _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
