- From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 17:00:26 -0400
- To: www-style@w3.org
On 8/28/12 3:37 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > This isn't hard. It is, however, inelegant and *useless*. There is > absolutely no reason to allow this, and it would simplify parsers the > spec and parsers to disallow it. Actually, it would make the Gecko parser more complicated, because there would have to be a special "get the next token even if it's a comment" tokenizer mode or something. Right now getting the next token can always skip over comments, which it wouldn't be able to do with your proposed change. So I don't think this is simpler for parsers, in general. It might be simpler for _your_ particular idea of a parser, perhaps. -Boris
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