Re: Why do you want to increment *argc in argcv.c?

[Sam Roberts]

Quoting Sergey Poznyakoff <address@hidden>, who wrote:
> By the way, given the following input:
> 
> set a=2#rest of the line
> 
> shouldn't '#rest of the line' be considered a comment? Now this line yields:
> { "set", "a", "=", "2#rest", "of", "the", "line", NULL }.

Yes and no.

I thought it was more clear that if you want a hash to start a
comment, you have to set it off from the line:

 set a=2 # comment

But I can see the argument the other way.

I guess we should go for "least surprising", should I change it?

Sam

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