From: Stephane Legrand <stephane@freebsd-fr.org>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] O'Caml looks at the contents of comments?!
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 13:34:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030913113404.GB35779@sequoia.mondomaineamoi.megalo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030913104552.GA21760@farrand.net>
On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 11:45:52AM +0100, Jim Farrand wrote:
> ...
> Eventually I traced the error to an unterminated string inside a
> comment. This strikes me as slightly odd behaviour - one of the first
> things comp sci students are taught about comments is that the compiler
> ignores them. As this has been my experience for many years it took me
> a long time to even consider that I could have a syntax error inside a
> comment.
>
> So why is this restriction enforced?
> ...
It's a FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/FAQ_EXPERT-eng.html#commentaire
Regards,
Stephane.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-13 10:45 Jim Farrand
2003-09-13 11:34 ` Stephane Legrand [this message]
2003-09-14 4:29 ` skaller
2003-09-14 4:49 ` Shawn Wagner
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