Re: New long comments in 5.1

[Asko Kauppi <asko.kauppi@...>]

Give them a break.. :)

It's only for the special case when --[[ won't do, like recursive 
comments or so.
Personally, I'd like the C++ style comments the one guy (sorry - you 
probably had a name ;P) suggested.

I trust the cooks of Lua, they've served us well..

-ak

18.6.2004 kello 20:37, Bruce Dodson kirjoitti:

     --[*[ this seems ridiculous ]*]--
> I agree.  Anyone who tries to type that on a standard QUERT
> keyboard will agree, that is not only ugly, it's cumbersome
> to type.  But I take it from the archive,
> http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2003-11/msg00301.html, that
> this new form also applies to strings, and that this is the
> reason it could not be something simpler like --[[* *]]:
> there are cases where the -- is not part of the token.
>
> I would really suggest changing the middle token to
> something else closer to the brackets on the keyboard, like
> "|" or "=" rather than "*".  This will not make it prettier
> or easier to syntax-highlight, but it would at least make it
> typeable.  Maybe Brazilian keyboards are different.
>
> Bruce