Re: Pike 8.0 RC1

"Stephen R. van den Berg" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.pike.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Chris Angelico wrote:
>> #{ is terminated by #}
>> #abc{ is terminated by #abc}

>> etc.  All other rules stay the same.  It will support unlimited nesting.
>> Supporting #( and #[ as well is in a similar manner of course is possible.

>Presumably anything that's actually a preprocessor command would be
>illegal for that - it'd be awkward if you go #string{    #string}.

>The question is, do we actually need more than three? Is the
>flexibility all that useful?

I don't have a strong opinion here.  I rarely need(ed) something like this.
So to avoid unnecessary code bloat, you might be right.
-- 
Stephen.
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