From: Kim Nguyen <nguyen@bk.ru>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Cc: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Quotes in comments: (* " *)
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 16:54:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031217165435.069eb702.nguyen@bk.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031217152232.GA29912@redhat.com>
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On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 15:22:32 +0000
Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org> wrote:
>
> Is there a deep reason why the compiler is fussed by unmatched quotes
> appearing in comments, ie: (* " *) ?
This seems necessary to ensure that any piece of code can easily be commented out :
(* This is a valid comment
let print_close_comment () = print_string "*)" <-- the comment does not end here.
*)
So the comment part of the lexer needs to analyse strings as well to igonre any "*)" character sequence within a
string. And therefore, it fails when a string is unterminated.
See http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/FAQ_EXPERT-eng.html#commentaire
IMHO, the bug should be corrected in tuareg-mode (if possible).
Cheers,
Kim.
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-17 15:22 Richard Jones
2003-12-17 15:54 ` Kim Nguyen [this message]
2003-12-17 17:02 ` Richard Jones
2003-12-17 23:09 ` William Lovas
2003-12-18 3:47 ` Dustin Sallings
2003-12-18 13:52 ` Hendrik Tews
2003-12-18 17:05 ` Xavier Leroy
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