The idea of a "comment to end of file" concept is unusual. But "comment
to beginning of file" - that's something I think we could all really get
behind.
-Mike Sokolov
On 03/09/2012 03:13 AM, Michael Kay wrote:
>You see I sadly miss the ability to add # to comment one line =bla
I guess every programming language has some individual features which
will be sorely missed by someone coming to XQuery from that particular
language. (I still pine after a language that allowed spaces in
variable and function names). The consequence of this line of
reasoning is that XQuery should offer every feature that has been
offered by every other popular programming language.
Personally, I've never come across a "comment to end of file" feature
in any of the many languages I have used, and have never felt a need
for it. As for "comment to end of line", we made a conscious decision
that in many of the environments where XQuery is likely to be used,
line endings are potentially unstable (e.g. they can be normalized
away if used in XML attributes) and that it was therefore a bad idea
to treat a line ending differently from a space.
Michael Kay
Saxonica
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