On 4 June 2011 02:02, Albert Y. C. Lai <tre...@vex.net> wrote:
> I propose that only {- -} is comment; that is, -- is an operator token and
> not a marker of comments.
>
> Two birds in one stone:
>
> 1. Removes the cause of the mistake of writing a haddock comment as --|
> That is, if no one writes any comment with -- then no one writes any haddock
> comment with --| --^ etc.
>
> 2. Opens up the option of using -- for prefix unary negation, so that - is
> unambiguously infix subtraction and therefore (- x) is consistently right
> sectioning of infix subtraction.I think it's probably too late to make such a sweeping change; besides, having some kind of inline comment indicator (which goes to the end of line) is useful. -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
