| 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 that
everyone adopts the same convention, and so that we may use that
convention in the Haskell report.
Whether > is a good convention is a matter of taste, but many people
like it. Rex Page at Amoco reports that when they adopted this
convention, the length of their comments doubled and the amount of code
halved!
-- P
