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 incomprehensible error messages as a result. But might that not just mean that the error messages ought to be improved? I don't know how hard that would be, but after having played around a bit with GHC, the messages I get are either of the type "parse error on input '--|'" or of the type "Not in scope: `-->'" (followed by lots of other stuff not being in scope etc). If this really is a big problem for beginners, it would not seem totally infeasible to add some special code that helpfully suggests that a space perhaps ought to be inserted? Or have you seen significantly worse error messages? Best, /Henrik -- Henrik Nilsson School of Computer Science and Information Technology The University of Nottingham [EMAIL PROTECTED] This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses, which could damage your computer system: you are advised to perform your own checks. Email communications with the University of Nottingham may be monitored as permitted by UK legislation. _______________________________________________ Haskell-prime mailing list Haskell-prime@haskell.org http://haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime
