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From: Vinzent Hoefler <ada.rocks@jlfencey.com>
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Subject: Re: Grace.Config_Files comment syntax
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 09:49:33 +0200
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Stephen Leake wrote:

>Vinzent Hoefler <ada.rocks@jlfencey.com> writes:
>
>> Don't forget the "--" comment. :-)
>
>Hmm. I see the smiley,

Yes. It wasn't meant to be *really* serious.

>but seriously, if we are following the Java
>Properties file format, we can't add a new comment syntax.

What a pity...

>Are you seriously suggesting that we should add a new comment syntax?

Well, if we'd do, would it break something? If the goal is to keep
100% compatibility in both directions, we can't do that, sure.


Vinzent.