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From: "Crístian Viana" <cristiandeives@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] comments on portage.keywords
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:14:59 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <92ad22480909151914h47ade5e2kf6cda49425b150bd@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090915214920.6c88693a@zaphod.digimed.co.uk>

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but in that case the "#" character is inside a string, so it wuldn't be
considered a comment. I was thinking like "//" in Java: it can be anywhere
in the line, but if it's inside a string it's not considered a comment
marker.

but thanks again for the information :)

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:

> On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:17:51 -0300, Crístian Viana wrote:
>
> > thank you, I didn't know about that. I thought comments were always
> > stripped off the contents of the config files, no matter where they
> > were.
>
> Title="### Look at me! ###"
>
> Is there a comment in there? The general convention is that if the first
> non-whitespace character is a #, the line is a comment.
>
>
> --
> Neil Bothwick
>
> With 5 billion people on earth chances are slim it will ever be *your*
> day.
>



-- 
Crístian Deives dos Santos Viana [aka CD1]

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-16  2:15 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
2009-09-15 20:17   ` Crístian Viana
2009-09-15 20:49     ` Neil Bothwick
2009-09-16  2:14       ` Crístian Viana [this message]
2009-09-16  7:34         ` Alan McKinnon

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