Hi Slava, Tonight after work I'd like to experiment with using the # char for comments instead of !. Is this just a case of modifying syntax.factor or would it be more involved than that?
(obviously I'd also need to global replace all the '!' comments) Cheers, Phil Slava Pestov wrote: > Hi, > > It is actually a really stupid reason. Originally Factor was written > in Java. And before it had a real parser, I was using Java's > StreamTokenizer class, which is really limited and crap. It hard- > codes the behavior of \ to be an escape. And EOL comments could only > start with a single character. So I chose !, for no real reason. > > Slava > > On 12-Dec-07, at 3:06 PM, Phil Dawes wrote: > >> Just wondering: from where does using '!' to denote comments come? > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is sponsored by: > Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. > It's the best place to buy or sell services > for just about anything Open Source. > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace > _______________________________________________ > Factor-talk mailing list > Factor-talk@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ Factor-talk mailing list Factor-talk@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk
