From 98462af5a71693b351df0b4314423417606d6f3e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Schilling <nominolo@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 22:16:57 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Clarify commenting rule for package description files.
---
doc/Cabal.xml | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/Cabal.xml b/doc/Cabal.xml
index c3f4824dd6..c5bc46cf06 100644
--- a/doc/Cabal.xml
+++ b/doc/Cabal.xml
@@ -298,8 +298,9 @@ Executable program2
usually the package name, and some of the tools that operate
on Cabal packages require this.</para>
- <para>In the package description file, lines beginning with
- <quote><literal>--</literal></quote> are treated as comments
+ <para>In the package description file, lines whose first
+ non-whitespace characters
+ are <quote><literal>--</literal></quote> are treated as comments
and ignored.</para>
<para>This file should contain of a number global property
--
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