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  from="Richard Jones &lt;rich@a...&gt;"
  author="Richard Jones"
  date="2003-12-17T15:22:35"
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On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 05:02:31PM +0000, Richard Jones wrote:
&gt; [...] I doubt I'm alone in this.  I actually have
&gt; a small collection of programs now which have lines like this:
&gt; 
&gt;   (* ... some comment which contains an odd number of quotes ...
&gt; 
&gt;   [Keep OCaml compiler happy --&gt;] " *)
&gt; 
&gt; I think the behaviour is counter-intuitive, and should be classified
&gt; as a bug, [...]

Funny, i always found the opposite behavior to be the more counter-
intuitive of the two.  (And if you want C/Java behavior, you know
where to get it.)

What circumstances lead you to produce comments that contain an odd
number of quotes?

William

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