Likewise that was my understanding too. On 13 June 2015 at 14:53, Joe Wicentowski <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, Ihe. That led me to > https://www.progress.com/xquery/resources/tutorials/learning-xquery/xquery---a-guided-tour > (a site I'd never seen before), which cites _ XQuery from the Experts: A > Guide to the W3C XML Query Language_ (2004) as having said: > >> XQuery uses "smiley faces" to begin and end comments. This cheerful >> notation was originally suggested by Jeni Tennison. > > > On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 9:17 AM, Ihe Onwuka <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I heard it was Jeni Tennison's idea. >> >> On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 9:12 AM, Joe Wicentowski <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> On a lighter note, the @xquery twitter account got this question: >>> >>> @xquery Were the smiley faces intentional? :) >>> https://twitter.com/EChan42/status/609465297523838976 >>> >>> Can anyone enlighten EChan42 and the seemingly endless stream, in many >>> different languages, of tweets about this lovable aspect of XQuery? >>> >>> Joe >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> [email protected] >>> http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] > http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk
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