- From: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@datadirect.com>
- Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 13:06:00 -0400
- To: scott_boag@us.ibm.com
- Cc: "Volkmann, Mark" <Mark.Volkmann@AGEDWARDS.com>, "'public-qt-comments@w3.org'" <public-qt-comments@w3.org>
scott_boag@us.ibm.com wrote: >>2) Smilies are an odd choice for comment delimiters. Why choose >>something that isn't used by any other common programming languages? > > > Hi Mark. Do you have a concrete suggestion for an alternative? As I think > Mike Kay pointed out, we have considered quite a few other delimiters, and > have indeed taken into consideration a survey of existing languages. But > if you have an alternative that you feel is clearly better, I would be > interested (I have my own gripes with Smilies). But nothing with slashes > or stars please. Hi Scott, Personally, I will be encouraging the Working Group not to spend a lot of time on the concrete syntax of comments. We have to stop spending so much time on minor issues. Jonathan
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