[Haskell-cafe] Comment Syntax

[Nick Bowler]

On 2011-06-06 13:39 -0400, Nick Bowler wrote:
> On 2011-06-06 13:08 -0400, Albert Y. C. Lai wrote:
> > Recall that the problem is not with isolated characters, but whole strings.
> [...]
> > in LaTeX, "%%@#$&^*" is a comment.
> 
> This example probably does not help your position.
> 
> Since (La)TeX allows the comment character to be changed at any time,
> the above is not necessarily a comment.  Furthermore, even with the
> default character classifications, \% does not introduce a comment.
> \% not introducing a comment in (La)TeX doesn't seem a whole lot
> different from --- not introducing a comment in Haskell.

And as was pointed out elsethread, --- /does/ in fact introduce a
comment in Haskell.  So the above should read:

  \% ... doesn't seem a whole lot different from --| ...

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Nick Bowler, Elliptic Technologies (http://www.elliptictech.com/)