On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 03:17:46PM +0000, Colm MacCarthaigh wrote:
? On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 02:53:43PM -0000, Breathnach, Proinnsias (Dublin) wrote:
? I wish they'd just add lexer rules like:
?
? "#"|"//"|"/*" { state = IGNORE; };
? \n { line_no++; if(state == IGNORE) { state = RESPOND; } };
? "*/" { if(state == IGNORE) { state = RESPOND;} }
Won't that give you a situation where:
/* this is a comment
this is not a comment
*/
assuming C style comments? Or am I reading it wrongly?
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