Re: New long comments in 5.1

[Philippe Lhoste <PhiLho@...>]

Tom Spilman wrote:
> > "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.

That's why HereDoc strings (and the Lua star variant) where invented: 
they provide a consistent infinity of styles that adapt to any enclosed 
content.
Choosing a fixed comment/string style would provide no solution to the 
problem, how rare the ending combination could occurs.

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Philippe Lhoste (Paris -- France)
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