Re: How to support '//' as lua's one line comment identifier?

[Tony Finch <dot@...>]

On Thu, 20 Jan 2011, David Manura wrote:
>
> Using '#' as a comment character is problematic in Lua because Lua
> already uses it as a table length operator:

This (and the perpetual flamewar) would not be a problem if # was removed
:-)

> BTW, I'm not entirely fond of Lua's "linenoise" block comments --[=[
> ]=] relative to [1].

http://lpar.ath0.com/2010/12/31/multi-line-comments-considered-harmful/

Tony.
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