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From: Neil Walker <neil@ep.mine.nu>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] comments on portage.keywords
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:12:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AAFF51B.3090905@ep.mine.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <92ad22480909151255t54700471k308f611a5298d193@mail.gmail.com>

Crístian Viana wrote:
> www-client/mozilla-firefox # hello world

For it to be a valid comment, the '#' MUST be the first character on the
line. That's always been the convention. A FEW programs will recognise
the '#' elsewhere in the line as the start of the comment but you should
NEVER EVER rely upon that.

> I don't think this behavior is consistent, comments shouldn't matter.
> is that a desirable feature or a bug?

It's totally consistent and highly desirable.


Be lucky,

Neil
http://www.neiljw.com





  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-15 20:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-15 19:55 [gentoo-user] comments on portage.keywords Crístian Viana
2009-09-15 20:12 ` Neil Walker [this message]
2009-09-15 20:17   ` Crístian Viana
2009-09-15 20:49     ` Neil Bothwick
2009-09-16  2:14       ` Crístian Viana
2009-09-16  7:34         ` Alan McKinnon

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