Comment Syntax

Thomas Davie tatd2 at kent.ac.uk
Mon Jan 30 13:42:44 EST 2006


>>
>> It gives you regexp and nothing more - this makes it a pain in  
>> the  arse to input every possible character that is/isn't allowed.
>>
>> Bob
>>
>
> Oh, come on.  It's a one time pain.  How hard can it be?

I agree, this is not a great argument, but the fact that the language  
is inconsistent, and that it confuses people easily, and can't come  
up with great error messages when it does go wrong, (my original  
arguments) really are good arguments for fixing this.

Bob


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