On 6/3/2015 7:05 PM, deadalnix wrote:
On Wednesday, 3 June 2015 at 22:50:52 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 6/2/2015 5:45 PM, deadalnix wrote:
You go though character and look for a '/'. When you hit one, you check if the
character before it is a *, and if so, you have the end of the comment. There is
obviously various edges cases to take into account, but that is the general
idea.
Line numbers have to be kept track of as well.
They retrieve line number lazily when needed, with various mechanism to speedup
the lookup.
Hmm. There's no way to get the line number without counting LFs, and that means
searching for them.
