On 30 Jan 2006, at 14:28, Neil Mitchell wrote:
Another argument in favour of this is that most editors with syntax
hilighting will show --> as a comment, which again increases the
confusion factor.
I would rather argue that since we have editors with syntax
highlighting, this isn't a big problem. The editor will tell you (if
the highlighting is implemented correctly) that --> does not start a
comment. Rather than changing the language we should fix the
highlighting modes for the editors in question.
This is rather hard, unless your editor is actually a thinly disguised
programming language. Certainly for my editor of choice (TextPad) this
cannot be done easily - and isn't needed for most other languages.
Ditto the SubEthaEdit syntax highlighting mode - I guess most people
have got used to editors being thinly disguised operating systems
these days (not looking at emacs or vim here).
Bob
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