On Tuesday 31 January 2006 12:31, Thomas Davie wrote:
The fact that -- is a reserved word while {- is not just highlights farther the inconsistency in the language.
Your position implies one of the following:
1) You think that "{{" ought to be a legal operator.
2) You think that "-" ought not to be a legal operator.
3) You think that custom operators are a bad idea. (Hey, Bjarne Stroustrup agrees with you!)
Which is it? Personally, I disagree with all three, but then again, I don't see any inconsistency here.
4) I think that comments should start consistently with either a) a reserved word, or b) something involving a set character (or characters) not allowed in operators. Maybe ever '{{' would be good for a single line comment.
a) a reserved word must be followed by space as well. b) {{ is certainly a bad idea because of pairwise paretheses match I feel no inconsitency with the current system and I think -- some comment looks much better than --some comment anyway. My opinion: Your editor should support you. If it doesn't, than switch to a proper one our adapt the mode and share it with the other users. Georg
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