On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, dman wrote:
> just out of curiosity, why are comments not allowed to follow an
> option? I think that would be useful, and it is a habit I have for
> short comments.
Because # may legitimately occur in email addresses and might be needed
in other strings such as file names, database queries, etc., etc. I
chose not to have to worry about how to parse them.
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