I strongly agree that this needs to be explicitly stated.
You can not depend on implementers to spot an ambiguity which this
committee did not itself spot for months.
A standard needs to be clear above almost everything else.
Shalom
On Mon, 30 Aug 2004, Andrew Brown wrote:
> No problem for the user as long as the rule "I can stick a comment
> ANYWHERE" is not broken. (One exception - no comments inside strings).
> More a problem for lexer writers ... and I know it may not seem like a
> big deal, but these things tend to get missed or miss-coded, leading to
> incompatibilities in compilers - or worse - me not being able to put
> comments anywhere and spending days debugging a problem related to
> comments. Whatever the solution is, it should probably be explicitly
> stated somewhere to ensure compatibility, so kudos to Paul for bringing
> it up.
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