- From: L. David Baron <dbaron@dbaron.org>
- Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 07:40:53 -0800
- To: W3C style mailing list <www-style@w3.org>
On Tuesday 2008-11-25 14:39 +0100, Bert Bos wrote:
> I propose to simply remove the offending phrase. In other words, change
> in section 4.1.1 (Tokenization) the phrase:
>
> may appear anywhere between other tokens
> to
> may appear anywhere
>
> I believe this is editorial. (The phrase "between other tokens" was
> added in 1998, when we weren't as careful with the language as we are
> now...)
We might still want to make it clear in the prose that a comment
can't appear in the middle of a token without causing it to be two
tokens. Otherwise people might think you can do:
p { background-/*not foreground*/color: green; }
which doesn't actually work.
-David
--
L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/
Mozilla Corporation http://www.mozilla.com/
Received on Tuesday, 25 November 2008 15:41:30 UTC