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Hi,

Philippe Lhoste wrote:
> But doesn't we have a slightly different syntax for literal strings and 
> block comments? Or has this been dropped?
> Something like [**[ I can use data like Foo[ar[b]] here! ]**] if I 
> recall correctly.

Oh, sorry. Forgot to mention that. It's [===[ ... ]===] in the
past few versions BTW. You can use any number of equal signs,
but the numbers in the start and end tags have to match. The
(legacy) [[ ... ]] quotes are now just a special case with zero
equal signs.

Bye,
     Mike