Editing User talk:Ashley Y (section)

== operators look like comments in syntax highlighting ==

Ashley,

[[User talk:Henk-Jan van Tuyl|Henk-Jan van Tuyl]] and [[User talk:Jalexanderdatkins|myself]] have been discussing a teeny tiny issue with the syntax highlighter, which is that a user-defined operator beginning with the characters -- incorrectly causes the rest of the line to be formatted as a comment. This is immaterial everywhere except in the one example which is written on the wiki to show that it is not in fact a comment, which can be found at [[Keywords#--]]. What I have done there is to insert a zero-width space (a unicode character) between the two hyphens, but Henk-Jan van Tuyl reports that the zero-width space appears as a rectangle with his combination of browser/operating system. If you view an old version of the page (before my edit) you will see what the syntax highlighter was doing before that.

Could the syntax highlighter be modified so that user-defined operators beginning with -- are not treated as one-line comments, or is it not worth it? (I suppose I could take that last line out and put it in a &lt;pre&gt; or something.) It just bothers me that the syntax highlighter appears to be contradicting the very point that the example is trying to make.

Yours,

[[User:Jalexanderdatkins|jalexanderdatkins]] 23:37, 5 August 2012 (UTC)

PS: Many thanks for everything you have done for the haskellwiki in your time. You are making the world a better place. [[User:Jalexanderdatkins|jalexanderdatkins]] 23:38, 5 August 2012 (UTC)