Re: Richtext

[erik@xxxxxxxxx (Erik M. van der Poel)]

Nathaniel Borenstein writes:
> The comment issue is a real red herring.  This has been argued over and
> over in programming language circles.  The current richtext comment
> syntax is a lot like C comments.  You want something more like -- well,
> I can't think offhand of any programming languages in which comments
> nest, actually, although  I'm sure there must be some.

C is a good example, actually. The /* ... */ comments cannot be
nested, so people resort to #ifdef notdef ... #endif.


Erik