Comment Syntax

[lennart at augustsson.net]

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

> 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.

Yes, I buy those arguments.  But it's also rather convenient to be
able to use -- in operators.

    -- Lennart