Comment Syntax

lennart at augustsson.net lennart at augustsson.net
Mon Jan 30 09:49:31 EST 2006


Quoting Thomas Davie <tatd2 at kent.ac.uk>:

>
> On 30 Jan 2006, at 14:28, Neil Mitchell wrote:
>
>>>> Another argument in favour of this is that most editors with syntax
>>>> hilighting will show --> as a comment, which again increases the
>>>> confusion factor.
>>>
>>> I would rather argue that since we have editors with syntax
>>> highlighting, this isn't a big problem. The editor will tell you (if
>>> the highlighting is implemented correctly) that --> does not start a
>>> comment. Rather than changing the language we should fix the
>>> highlighting modes for the editors in question.
>>
>> This is rather hard, unless your editor is actually a thinly disguised
>> programming language. Certainly for my editor of choice (TextPad) this
>> cannot be done easily - and isn't needed for most other languages.
>
> Ditto the SubEthaEdit syntax highlighting mode - I guess most people  
> have got used to editors being thinly disguised operating systems  
> these days (not looking at emacs or vim here).
>

Are you telling me that your text editor doesn't even give you a regexp
for defining comments?  If it doesn't, I'd say your editor needs to upgrade
to some good 1960s text editor technology.

    -- Lennart


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