Re: literate comments

1992-01-27 Thread haskell-request
Original-Via: uk.ac.ed.aiai; Mon, 27 Jan 92 17:36:47 GMT Could someone please explain to me why there needs to be support for literate comments in the langauge (rather than in the editor or some other program) and why conventions involving > or .troff-like-commands are good ones? Maybe I'm just

Re: literate comments

1992-01-27 Thread haskell-request
Original-Via: uk.ac.uknet; Mon, 27 Jan 92 09:49:41 GMT Yes - please include the literate program convention. I never write any other way. Small pedantic point: I think program lines should begin with the two characters "> " to prevent people writing lines beginning ">=", which could confuse th