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Re: Richtext

1992-02-07 23:06:51
Nathaniel Borenstein writes:
The comment issue is a real red herring.  This has been argued over and
over in programming language circles.  The current richtext comment
syntax is a lot like C comments.  You want something more like -- well,
I can't think offhand of any programming languages in which comments
nest, actually, although  I'm sure there must be some.

C is a good example, actually. The /* ... */ comments cannot be
nested, so people resort to #ifdef notdef ... #endif.


Erik


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