Quoting Thomas Davie
On 30 Jan 2006, at 14:28, Neil Mitchell wrote:
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.
Ditto the SubEthaEdit syntax highlighting mode - I guess most people have got used to editors being thinly disguised operating systems these days (not looking at emacs or vim here).
Are you telling me that your text editor doesn't even give you a regexp for defining comments? If it doesn't, I'd say your editor needs to upgrade to some good 1960s text editor technology. -- Lennart