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Todd Lehman wrote in message ...
>In lugnet.admin.general, Chris Moseley writes:
>> But regardless, please don't mix meta types.
I suppose it's worth noting that I'm very unlikely to be a user of this
language, because I don't virtually emote easily and I lack the patience
to deal with the slowness of the web. To attract me it either has to be
lag-free or well written, and the web is rarely either.
>I don't quite grok. By COBOL-style comments do you mean something in
>column 1 affecting the rest of the line?
Yes. The idea that a pipe character is special if it occurs in column
one, but not special otherwise, is not one I like. The simplest objection
is that on a screen without a clear left margin it can be impossible to
tell why your code won't compile:
This is an example of <B>Bold</B> text and
| must put in a better example
this is <I>italic</I>.
Which is valid HTML, but with the proposed comment tag the above will
be very hard to relate to the output. Assuming your comment tag works,
the above will output:
This is an example of BOLD text and | must put in a better example this
is italic.
Which I trust has confused you sufficiently?
Note that the C++ // comment is valid regardless of position. That's
better, but I would prefer either syntax highlighting or strict tags.
IMO syntax colouring is what makes some of the more complex languages
workable. For instance, Delphi with embedded SQL is fairly readable if
you colour string constants, but unbearable otherwise due to the mix
of language syntaxes.
Moz
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