Two very simple questions

[Charles Hartman]

Unfortunately *all* comment syntaxes (syntaces??) confuse Colorize in  
this way. Clicking on Script | Colorize always seems to fix it, but  
it's kind of annoying to have to do that.

Charles

On Aug 25, 2005, at 7:29 PM, Brian Yennie wrote:

> That does sound like a bug, but if it helps Transcript also accept  
> comments in the form
>
> ## this is a comment
>
> or
>
> -- this is a comment
>
> From the little I just played around, it looks like multiline  
> comments sometimes confuse the script coloring, and possibly /* */  
> is less supported for single line comments as well.
>
> IIRC (and I might not), "--" is the original xTalk sytax, "##" is  
> borrowed (or similar to) other scripting languages, and /* */ is  
> more commonly found in lower-level languages (but acceptable in  
> most high level ones too).
>
> Apparently Transcript has tried to keep everyone happy here,  
> although it might have become a little odd to support 3 different  
> comment syntaxes.
>
> - Brian