On 02/10/2018 06:03 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
There isn't any commenting scheme that won't trip you up with certain characters
That's exactly the whole point of heredocs ever existing in the first place, its exactly the problem they're created for.
in the comments. I don't see a compelling case for adding another kind of comment.
That's the same exact reason most languages don't have most of the nice things in D, like separators for numeric literals: Because they're not strictly necessary. But if D had never been willing to improve the state of the art by not being afraid of "not stricktly necessary" features, very few of us would have ever had reson to come onboard with D in the first place. And yes, I know D's not at that point any more. And that's one of my biggest dissapointments with D.
Vladimir's suggestion to use %2B instead of + seems to resolve this adequately.
Only for URLs. "URLs" was just one example of a language that can leas to trouble.
