Re: Discrepancy between documentation and implementation regarding comments

[Nicolas Goaziou]

Hello,

Thibault Polge <address@hidden> writes:

> Thanks Nicolas, just a small detail though: unless this is a planned
> (breaking) change, I believe the description you linked should read:
>
> A “comment line” starts with *zero or more whitespace characters,
> followed by* a hash sign, followed by a whitespace character or an end
> of line.

True. I fixed that.

> Another detail: it could be nice to have a small appendix somewhere
> mapping character names to codepoints, since Unicode has no less than
> three “number signs” (from Wikipedia):
>
>  - U+0023 # NUMBER SIGN (HTML &#35;). Other attested names in Unicode are: 
> pound sign, hash, crosshatch, octothorpe.
>  - U+FF03 ＃ FULLWIDTH NUMBER SIGN (HTML &#65283;)
>  - U+FE5F ﹟ SMALL NUMBER SIGN (HTML &#65119;)

This is left as an exercise to the reader. ;)

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou