Re: what I learned from today's discussion of delimiters

> What if we think of both pragma delimiters and comment delimiters as
> notifications to the processor? The content of the pragma is addressed
> to a processor, whereas the content of the comment is addressed to a
> human. But the *delimiters* in both cases are addressed to the
> processor, instructing it either a) to ignore a comment, or b) to
> behave as appropriate for a pragma (which may mean ignoring it, or
> doing something with it).

I’m going to have to think about that for a bit, but I think I like it.
The observation that the delimiter is *for the processor* in both cases
(just as the “<“ in an XML start tag is “for the processor” and not
generally considered part of the tag) is a new and useful one, I think!

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Norm Tovey-Walsh
Saxonica