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From: "Crístian Viana" <cristiandeives@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] comments on portage.keywords
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 02:15:15
Message-Id: 92ad22480909151914h47ade5e2kf6cda49425b150bd@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] comments on portage.keywords by Neil Bothwick
1 but in that case the "#" character is inside a string, so it wuldn't be
2 considered a comment. I was thinking like "//" in Java: it can be anywhere
3 in the line, but if it's inside a string it's not considered a comment
4 marker.
5
6 but thanks again for the information :)
7
8 On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
9
10 > On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:17:51 -0300, Crístian Viana wrote:
11 >
12 > > thank you, I didn't know about that. I thought comments were always
13 > > stripped off the contents of the config files, no matter where they
14 > > were.
15 >
16 > Title="### Look at me! ###"
17 >
18 > Is there a comment in there? The general convention is that if the first
19 > non-whitespace character is a #, the line is a comment.
20 >
21 >
22 > --
23 > Neil Bothwick
24 >
25 > With 5 billion people on earth chances are slim it will ever be *your*
26 > day.
27 >
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32 Crístian Deives dos Santos Viana [aka CD1]

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Re: [gentoo-user] comments on portage.keywords Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>