On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 09:20:33PM +0000, Philip Hazel wrote:
| 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.
Ok. That's a good enough reason if you don't want to require escaping
them.
-D
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He who scorns instruction will pay for it,
but he who respects a command is rewarded.
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