Re: literate comments

[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 thick, but
I don't get it.