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From: William Lovas <wlovas@stwing.upenn.edu>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Quotes in comments: (* " *)
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 18:09:52 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031217230952.GB27877@force.stwing.upenn.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031217170231.GA30848@redhat.com>

On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 05:02:31PM +0000, Richard Jones wrote:
> [...] I doubt I'm alone in this.  I actually have
> a small collection of programs now which have lines like this:
> 
>   (* ... some comment which contains an odd number of quotes ...
> 
>   [Keep OCaml compiler happy -->] " *)
> 
> I think the behaviour is counter-intuitive, and should be classified
> as a bug, [...]

Funny, i always found the opposite behavior to be the more counter-
intuitive of the two.  (And if you want C/Java behavior, you know
where to get it.)

What circumstances lead you to produce comments that contain an odd
number of quotes?

William

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-12-17 23:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-17 15:22 Richard Jones
2003-12-17 15:54 ` Kim Nguyen
2003-12-17 17:02   ` Richard Jones
2003-12-17 23:09     ` William Lovas [this message]
2003-12-18  3:47       ` Dustin Sallings
2003-12-18 13:52 ` Hendrik Tews
2003-12-18 17:05 ` Xavier Leroy

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