Re: literate comments

1992-01-28 Thread haskell-request
Original-Via: uk.ac.uknet; Tue, 28 Jan 92 14:04:42 GMT Jeff Dalton writes: Could someone please explain to me why there needs to be support for literate comments in the language (rather than in the editor or some other program) and why conventions involving or .troff-like-commands are

Re: literate comments

1992-01-28 Thread haskell-request
| 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? The reason for putting literate comments in the language is so