Jarkko Hietaniemi said
> What's wrong with stealing from C/C++/Java instead
> of trying to invent our own?
>
> In other words, what's wrong with /* ... */?
For one thing this would break (looking for zero or many slashes, x, y and
zero to many zs):
if (/\/*xyz*/) { ... };
Perl has gotten itself into a hole on this subject, due to its shell-based
roots where one line comments are sufficient.
Maybe this could work if we disable the special meaning of /**/ when found
in a quoted string or a regex (as "#" is).
Please send further comments on this to the Multiline Comment sublist.
--Michael
