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-rw-r--r--src/HsLexer.lhs10
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/HsLexer.lhs b/src/HsLexer.lhs
index d55b5ef0..ac5fa9ae 100644
--- a/src/HsLexer.lhs
+++ b/src/HsLexer.lhs
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
--- $Id: HsLexer.lhs,v 1.2 2002/04/09 11:23:24 simonmar Exp $
+-- $Id: HsLexer.lhs,v 1.3 2002/04/24 15:12:41 simonmar Exp $
--
-- (c) The GHC Team, 1997-2000
--
@@ -561,8 +561,12 @@ slurpExtraCommentLines s lines y
= case rest of
'\n':nextline ->
case dropWhile nonNewlineSpace nextline of
- '-':'-':s -> slurpExtraCommentLines s
- ((line++"\n"):lines) (y+1)
+ -- stop slurping if we see a string of more than two '-';
+ -- strings of dashes are useful as separators but we don't
+ -- want them in the doc.
+ '-':'-':c:s | c /= '-'
+ -> slurpExtraCommentLines (c:s)
+ ((line++"\n"):lines) (y+1)
_ -> (rest, finished, y)
other -> (rest, finished, y)
where