Original-Via: uk.ac.ed.aiai; Tue, 4 Feb 92 17:26:28 GMT
> I think people are asking too much of a literate style. In my
> opinion it is useful when writing programs with more comments than code.
> In such situations, it is important to be able to distinguish comment lines
> and code lines without having to look at their context. This can
> be done either by placing a symbol at the start of each comment line,
> or placing a symbol at the start of each code line. When there are
> more comments than code, the latter approach produces less "noise".
I have no trouble distinguishing most comment lines from most
code lines without the annoying ">". In the cases where a comment
looks very much like code, I don't think the usual LaTeX approach
of \begin and \end commands is very hard to understand.
> For this reason I think that a literate style should be part of the
> language.
In any case, you can write a program to process the ">" lines
rather than having it be part of the language.
Of course, there may be _other_ reasons for making them part of
the language.
