<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: medium; ">let (--*) = (+) in 5 --* 6</span><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">===> 11</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The comment is introduced by -- followed by a non-symbol (because if followed by a symbol, it might be an operator)</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Hope this helps!</span></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Lucida Grande'"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Dan<br>
</span></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 11:30 PM, michael rice <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nowgate@yahoo.com">nowgate@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font:inherit">I'm just noticing that "--" comments don't seem to work properly when the first character following them is a '*'.<br>
<br>Michael<br><br><br><span style="font-family:courier,monaco,monospace,sans-serif">--*I like asterisks<br>--*I like asterisks<br>--*I like asterisks<br>--*I like asterisks<br><br>double x = x+x<br><br><br>Prelude> :l double<br>
[1 of 1] Compiling Main ( double.hs, interpreted )<br><br>double.hs:1:0: parse error on input `--*'<br>Failed, modules loaded: none.<br>Prelude> <br></span><br></td></tr></tbody></table><br>
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