RE: New long comments in 5.1

["Tom Spilman" <tom@...>]

> "little chance of them appearing in normal code"?
> What about content of strings, or nested comments? 

  Well face it... No matter what is suggested it can appear in a string.
*Nothing* will work 100% of the time.  -# This is simple and will work in
most cases. #-  At worst it has the same failings as C/C++ comments... I say
that's just fine.

  Tom

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> Philippe Lhoste
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> Subject: Re: New long comments in 5.1
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> Tom Spilman wrote:
> >>-# Jadek #-
> > 
> >  I like this... two characters... little chance of them 
> appearing in 
> > normal code... similar to C/C++ comments.  What's the 
> problem with using this?
> 
> "little chance of them appearing in normal code"?
> What about content of strings, or nested comments?
> 
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