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2 May 2024 16:35:20 EDT (-0400)
  Re: hilbert2d utility  
From: Stephen
Date: 9 May 2018 10:00:01
Message: <web.5af2fe9dff7db64c2a2ff10d0@news.povray.org>
clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:
> Am 09.05.2018 um 14:27 schrieb Stephen:
>
> > While I am at it and before I forget. Is there something in the Windoze
> > editor that gets confused when /* ... */ comments are nested?
> > Ctrl + ] doesn't always work as I expect.
> > But then that could be me. It so often is.
>
> While POV-Ray's parser allows comments to be nested, the 3rd party
> editor component isn't designed to accomodate for that.
>
> So for example,
>
>     /*a/*b*/c*/
>
> to POV-Ray is a comment containing `a/*b*/c` (the portion `/*b*/` being
> a nested comment), while to the editor it is a comment containing `a/*b`
> (the `/*` being nothing special) followed by a separate `c*/` outside
> the comment.

Good, that eliminates one straw I was grasping at. :-)

Thanks for the quick reply.

Stephen


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