patch applied (packages/base): Change C-style comments to Haskell-style.

[Neil Mitchell]

Hi Malcolm,

Why not change them to #if 0 ?

That way you are C safe and Haskell safe. (Suggestion originally from Isaac D)

Thanks

Neil

On 6/25/07, Malcolm Wallace <Malcolm.Wallace at cs.york.ac.uk> wrote:
> Mon Jun 25 02:45:15 PDT 2007  Malcolm.Wallace at cs.york.ac.uk
>   * Change C-style comments to Haskell-style.
>   These two headers are only ever used for pre-processing Haskell code,
>   and are never seen by any C tools except cpp.  Using the Haskell comment
>   convention means that cpphs no longer needs to be given the --strip
>   option to remove C comments from open code.  This is a Good Thing,
>   because all of /* */ and // are valid Haskell operator names, and there
>   is no compelling reason to forbid using them in files which also happen
>   to have C-preprocessor directives.
>
>     M ./include/CTypes.h -7 +7
>     M ./include/Typeable.h -4 +4
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