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
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