Re: Comments in Tcl (Was: Why you should not use Tcl)

Peter da Silva (peter@nmti.com)
Mon, 26 Sep 1994 19:36:15 GMT

In article <Cwowwx.Anz@druid.com>, D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@druid.com> wrote:
> Although I like Tcl I must admit that the comment processing does
> bother me. It seems so counter-intuitive. From a perusal of the
> code I also have to wonder why it is handled in the parser. This
> seems like the kind of thing that should be in the scanner.

puts stdout {#!/bin/sh -f
echo "This is a test"
}

if $var {#!/bin/sh -f
echo "This is a test"
}

How does the "scanner" distinguish these two cases?

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