Re: New long comments in 5.1

[Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@...>]

> Couldn't you just as easily use any identifier or number?
> 
>  --[4[ ... ]4]
>  --[MMH[ ... ]MMH]

An identifier is ambiguous; e.g., a[b[x]] = 3; (Remember that this
syntax is not only for comments, but for long strings, too.)  More often
than not we will use zero, one, or at most two asterisks.


> And it will be hard to syntax hightlight correctly in SciTE,

I guess any syntax that allows arbitrary data (and therefore has
a non-fixed delimiter) would have similar problems.


> This while still managing nested comments...

Probably the nesting will be deprecated. It will be kept for
compatibility, but good practice will be to use a delimiter that
does not occurr inside the data.

-- Roberto