[spoon-discuss] Re: [Spoon-business] Comment Fix

[Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 31 Jul 2004 13:05:22 -0400, Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> A slight fix in how we define comments, because I think the current way
> is flawed - it simply states that text between opening and closing
> brackets is comment, whereas we only want to to be comment between an
> opening pair and the next closing pair.
> 
> {{
> __Fact from Fiction__
> 
> Amend rule 8 to read:
> {{
> __Comments__
> 
> The strings '[[' and ']]' are Comment Delimiters. In any body of text
> related to the game, excepting this rule and any documents that
> explicitly state of themselves that they are exempt, all text between
> an occurrence of '[[' and the next occurrence of ']]' is considered to
> be "comment" text. Comment text exists solely for elucidative or
> demonstrative purposes - it has no bearing on the content of the
> document, and the document is treated as if the text was not there at
> all (except for the purposes of copying, etc.).
> [[

(comment begins)

> Doing it this way is necessary, because under the former wording one
> could claim that two comments implicitly commented the space between
> them. For example:
> [[ Hahahaha! ]]

(comment ends)

> At the beginning of each nweek, the player known as Wonko is awarded a
> Win.

Nice try.
-- 
bd
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