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

[James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>]

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
>