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Le Wed, 19 Jan 2011 11:04:55 +0100, Georg Bauhaus  =

<rm-host.bauhaus@maps.futureapps.de> a =C3=A9crit:
> (Regarding the comment markup, I first thought "{{Frmbloo}}";
> however, mathematical sets, very useful in comments, can have
> sets as elements, "{{" becomes ambigous".  "{{" might be too
> similar to "((", too, the latter being valid Ada source text.
> The @{ @} construct, sufficiently unique yet simple, can bracket
> inline Ada source of any kind; "@@" (or some another pair)
> will---if needed---provide for line-wise switching
> complementing "--" and eases the writing of coding examples in
> comments.  The comments can then be checked by compilers and
> tools.
Looks good. The use of =E2=80=9C@=E2=80=9D is also quite common in one w=
ell known LP  =

notations : FunnelWeb. So this is a somewhat already existing standard. =
 =

After all, LP writes program text inside of natural text=E2=80=A6 and th=
is is  =

exactly what this is about with comments.

According to the authoritative FunnelWeb documentation, which you can  =

access here:
http://www.ross.net/funnelweb/tutorial/intro_hello.html
the body of a macros, whose purpose is to expand into program text, is  =

exactly the same as the one you suggested! This would be a clever re-use=
  =

of one of the most famous LP notation. By the way, this guy, Ross  =

Williams, the author of FunnelWeb, was also a fan of Ada=E2=80=A6 see ho=
w this  =

story is funny ? ;)

> (If programmers didn't suffer from Unicode phobia, the language
> designers could pick symbols for bracketing not otherwise used
> such as right and left pointing triangles.  Alas, digraphs rule...)
The font too should not suffer from Unicode phobia. Mono-spaced fonts ar=
e  =

oftenly poor at supporting Unicode (lack of too many character range). I=
  =

would suggest =E2=80=9CDejaVu Sans Mono=E2=80=9D here (good support, the=
 one I use, so I  =

can tell).

-- =

Si les chats miaulent et font autant de vocalises bizarres, c=E2=80=99es=
t pas pour  =

les chiens.

=E2=80=9CI am fluent in ASCII=E2=80=9D [Warren 2010]