On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 01:07:19PM -0400, Patrick M Doane wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Oct 2001, Benjamin C. Pierce wrote:
> 
> > I.e., *one* kind of (not very) funny comment marker, plus using the
> > indentation to decide whether the comment binds to the expression before
> > or after:
> > 
> >       if the comment is on a line by itself, 
> >       then if its indentation is the same as the following (non-comment) line
> >            then it goes with the following
> >            else it goes with the preceding
> >       else it goes with the line it's on.
> 
> This proposal looks perfect to me.
> 
> I've also noticed in the manual that all of the multi-line comment
> examples are like this:
> 
>  (**  line 1
>       line 2
>       line 3 *)
> 
> Will there be any issues with writing comments like this?
> 
>  (** line 1
>   *  line 2
>   *  line 3
>   *)

Yes, this is nice, and the extra * may even be provided by your editor
automatically, like what happens with C code, provided the corresponding
vim/emacs rules are extended accordyingly (but then maybe vim 6 can already do
thi ?).

Friendly,

Sven Luther
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