* Andrew Coppin <andrewcop...@btinternet.com> [2011-06-03 18:12:04+0100]
> On 03/06/2011 05:02 PM, Albert Y. C. Lai wrote:
> >I propose that only {- -} is comment; that is, -- is an operator token
> >and not a marker of comments.
>
> I'm curious to know why anybody thought that "--" was a good comment
> marker in the first place. (I'm curious because Haskell isn't the
> only language to have made this strange choice.)
It is, for my taste, a good comment marker, because of its resemblance
to a dash. It makes the code look like real text:
let y = x + 1 -- increment x
--
Roman I. Cheplyaka :: http://ro-che.info/
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