On 30 Jan 2006, at 14:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Quoting Thomas Davie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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).
Are you telling me that your text editor doesn't even give you a
regexp
for defining comments? If it doesn't, I'd say your editor needs to
upgrade
to some good 1960s text editor technology.
It gives you regexp and nothing more - this makes it a pain in the
arse to input every possible character that is/isn't allowed.
Bob
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