Original-Via: uk.ac.nsf; Sun, 2 Feb 92 00:18:29 GMT
> A personal opinion about this 'literate' feature;
> I have done my thesis programming part in Miranda,
> which has the same 'literate' option ( lines beginning with
> > are in the program, the other lines are comments ), and
> I found it very useful when I applied Latex to the source
> code... so from experience I would opt for 'literate' Haskell.
Why is it useful? LaTeX doesn't understand that notation, does it?
I know it's silly to spend much time on trivial issues, but I really
am puzzled by this one. Why do people think it's reasonable to have
">" in from of lines of code? \begin{program} and \end{program}
would be more like LaTeX. Is it that hard to use literate programming
without support in the language?
-- jd
