30 Jan
2006
30 Jan
'06
9:28 a.m.
Another argument in favour of this is that most editors with syntax hilighting will show --> as a comment, which again increases the confusion factor.
I would rather argue that since we have editors with syntax highlighting, this isn't a big problem. The editor will tell you (if the highlighting is implemented correctly) that --> does not start a comment. Rather than changing the language we should fix the highlighting modes for the editors in question.
This is rather hard, unless your editor is actually a thinly disguised programming language. Certainly for my editor of choice (TextPad) this cannot be done easily - and isn't needed for most other languages. Neil