RE: [relax-ng] Re: [relax-ng-comment] ## comments in compact syntax

[Michael Fitzgerald <mike@wyeast.net>]

Javadoc doesn't fret over /**********************/. It just happily rolls
along. -Mike

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Clark [mailto:jjc@jclark.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 8:07 PM
> To: David Rosenborg; relax-ng-comment@lists.oasis-open.org
> Cc: relax-ng@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: [relax-ng] Re: [relax-ng-comment] ## comments in compact syntax
>
>
> Interesting point.  Does anybody know what javadoc does with
>
> /**********************/
>
> or C# with
>
> ////////////////////////
>
> ?
>
> --On 25 September 2002 21:14 +0200 David Rosenborg
> <david.rosenborg@pantor.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > I think one common pattern when you comment code is to use comment
> > charaters as  dividers of major sections like:
> >
> ># Some major section follows
> >#########################################################
> >
> > The problem here is that the divider line is treated specially since
> > it starts with ##. It is a bit supricing but you can get around
> it easily
> > by adding an extra space:
> >
> >
> ># Some major section follows
> ># #######################################################
> >
> > I think one solution would be to only recognize ## as a documentation
> > comment if it is followed by a non-# character. The disadvantage with
> > this is that you will possibly need an extra character of lookahead in
> > the  parser.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > David
> >
>
>
>
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