I said: > > Any FF/VT-only line would force the end of a t-expression, and would > > then be consumed before the next t-expression. Which is reasonable > > enough. >
John Cowan asked: > Is that the same effect as a blank line? Yes, it's the same effect. But the rule is written specifically so that the FFs and VTs outside a comment must be the ONLY things on their line. In particular, you can't have a ";" follow it. I thought it'd be confusing to have "\f ; hello \n". An FF could be after a ";", but only because any character after ";" is ignored up to the EOL. It seems to me that ";" should comment out ANYTHING other than end-of-line, and it'd be confusing (and limiting) to do otherwise. Same thing for #|...|#, you can put FF in there, because its contents are ignored except for the search for the terminator (or a nested comment in that case). --- David A. Wheeler ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Readable-discuss mailing list Readable-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/readable-discuss
