Re: lexing

[Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/29/2015 07:33 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> For the same reason as always — to document things for the next reader: 

Yup, that's questions and answers are for.

> echo $( # Use a subshell because foo chokes if isatty(1) foo ) I don't 
> think Bart mentioned the subshell syntax: ( # this is a comment echo 42 ) 

As long as his general rule holds.  The white space serves as a word 
separator, so really, following that more or less simple rule, it hasta 
be a comment, which pretty much kills my last mini-rant--it's a comment 
because the rule makes it a comment, and because there's no reason to 
take the trouble to prevent it from being a comment so it's a comment, 
strange as it might look.