Re: Request for opinions. Re: [Wrapper-user] wrapper.java.additional.11 with # in value

[Leif M. <le...@ta...>]

Paul Casanova wrote:

>Hi Leif,
>
>The latter idea (##) seems the most logical since most programming
>conventions use a double whatever to escape and use the whatever!
>
>Eg, in VB an & is used to specify an accelarator key in menus buttons etc,
>so && escapes this and shows "&" in the menu button etc.
>
>The only issue might be where people have a string of #'s used to highlight
>an area of code in a conf file, eg
>########################### IMPORTANT CODE ###########################.
>
It should be ok, each double ## would be reduced to single #, then first 
single #
would be interpreted as a comment.
In addition, any line which starts with a # would still be a comment 
unless it was #include
I'll have to test it, but I think the above example should be ok.

Cheers,
Leif