nested comments

[William Stoye <wstoye@acorn.co.uk>]

Original-Via: uk.ac.nsf; Wed, 19 Sep 90 11:26:48 BST
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 90 09:50:27 GMT
From: William Stoye <wstoye@acorn.co.uk>
To: haskell@cs.yale.edu
Subject: nested comments
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Another route is to take the minimalist view of the ADA
designers, which is:

  there is NO block comment rule which is entirely safe from
  accidental closure of the comment.

This lead them to -- commenting out the rest of the line, as
the ONLY comment syntax. To comment out a block, invoke your
powerful text editor - not too hard these days.

Are functional languages supposed to be making things simpler
for programmers? Simple rules are good rules!

--William