I disagree.  I use // because then when I need to take out a chunk of code
(the requirements for the programs change faster than I can keep up with
them!!) I can do /* unnecessary code */ and it doesn't end prematurely.

-Natalie

-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Gorski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 9:25 AM
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Subject: Re: [PHP] comment followed by ?> fails to parse


Bah quit complaining, you should be using /* comments */ anyway.....

ed

At 09:16 PM 5/29/2002 +0800, Jason Wong wrote:
>On Wednesday 29 May 2002 21:10, Brinkman, Theodore wrote:
> > It really should ignore anything in any sort of comment.  The whole 
> > point of a comment is that it provides the programmer with 
> > information and is ignored by the compiler/interpreter.  If // is 
> > supposed to comment until the end of the line, then by god, it 
> > should comment until the end of the line, not until the end of the 
> > line unless it finds ?> buried in the line somewhere. Even VB gets 
> > this right!
>
>As someone has already pointed out that is documented behaviour. 
>Personally I agree with you in that the whole line should be commented.
>
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