- From: Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org>
- Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 20:21:07 -0500
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 8:10 PM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote: > ?* Helping authors not write HTML markup that might be hard to convert to > ? XML, and helping authors avoid nesting comments accidentally, by > ? flagging "--" sequences in comments > > ?* Getting out of the way of authors who want to put "--" sequences in > ? comments, e.g. because they use "--" as a long dash (as I do all the > ? time!), or because they want to comment out punycoded URLs. > > Currently the spec assumes the former is more important. Personally, I > think the latter is rather more useful, but then I use "--" as long > dashes all the time! When this was last studied, the weight of argument > was on the stricter "disallow --" side of things, presumably. I do this, too, and disallowing this in comments would be very annoying. This is probably a novice question since it seems too obvious, but rather than disallowing "--", why not disallow the entire comment opening token, "<!--"? This whole thing seems like something that should be left to text editors, though, not forced. For example, if I enter "/* /* text */" in a C file in Vim, it highlights the second "/*" in red as a warning. I don't need the compiler to reject it. -- Glenn Maynard
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