digitalmars.D.bugs - [Issue 16603] New: [Lexical] comment definition is incorrrect
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https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16603 Issue ID: 16603 Summary: [Lexical] comment definition is incorrrect Product: D Version: D2 Hardware: All URL: http://dlang.org/ OS: All Status: NEW Severity: blocker Priority: P3 Component: dlang.org Assignee: nobody puremagic.com Reporter: kevin brogan.ca Both of the block comment definitions are incorrect. BlockComment: /* Characters */ Character: any Unicode character The ending comment tags are included in the definition of "any unicode character", which would make the block comment in quotes "/* abc */ */" a single comment instead of a comment followed by an invalid sequence, if you follow the maximal munch technique. The nesting block comment suffers from the same definition. The c++ spec handles this by describing comments in a non technical manner. See [lex.comment] in the spec. A solution could be perhaps, to mention that comments take a minimum munch in the exceptions note. --
Oct 07 2016