<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Cool! Didn't know that, and the Haskell syntax I looked up made no mention of it.<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>Michael<br><br>--- On <b>Fri, 12/11/09, Daniel Peebles <i><pumpkingod@gmail.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Daniel Peebles <pumpkingod@gmail.com><br>Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] "--" comments<br>To: "michael rice" <nowgate@yahoo.com><br>Cc: haskell-cafe@haskell.org<br>Date: Friday, December 11, 2009, 11:33 PM<br><br><div id="yiv346734433"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="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 rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:nowgate@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="/mc/compose?to=nowgate@yahoo.com">nowgate@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-size: inherit; line-height: inherit; font-size-adjust: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; -x-system-font: none;" valign="top">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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