"ocaml_beginners"::[] What is the idea behind requiring strings to be whole in comments?

Am Sun, 10 Sep 2006 15:53:19 -0000
schrieb "jcriddle4" <jcriddle4yahoo.com>:

> 
> (* Why does this program get an error of "This
comment contains an
> unterminated string literal? *)

comments are nestable, so you have to parse over strings to
be able to
do it.
In c/c++ you get an error with such comments:

/* "closing token in string: */ gives error"  */

cheers,
 Michael


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