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[John Gruber]

Daniel Lawson <dlawson at alumni.kzoo.edu> wrote on 9/17/06 at 11:27 PM:


> >     For compatibility, the string "--" (double-hyphen) must not

> >     occur within comments.

> 

> That stinks if you're trying to comment out any section of a web page  

> that contains code using the decrement operator.


Yup.

If they wanted to go for SGML compatibility with `<!-- … -->`
comments, fine, but then I think they should have included a new
comment style that simple works from "start" to "end" with no
other rules whatsoever.

-J.G.