Re: A Low-Rent Syntax Problem

brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
4 Sep 90 04:27:17 GMT

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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Keywords: parse, lex, design
Organization: IR
References: <MCDANIEL.90Aug28144647@dolphin.adi.com> <=M~%JG&@rpi.edu>
Date: 4 Sep 90 04:27:17 GMT

In article <=M~%JG&@rpi.edu> adamsf@turing.cs.rpi.edu (Frank Adams) writes:
> In article <MCDANIEL.90Aug28144647@dolphin.adi.com> mcdaniel@adi.com (Tim McDaniel) writes:
        [ // comments to end of line; newline used for statement terminator: ]
        [ should continuation character be before comments or before newline? ]
    [ put continuation character after newline, as in Fortran ]


Better is TeX's intuitive solution. The comment marker always joins the
lines around it. You don't need another continuation character.


---Dan
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