From: "Paul Ranson" 

But they're not 'abused' in HTML, they're used to enable more functionality
without breaking backwards compatibility. It's a bodge, something that
should have been considered at original design time. Just like many of the
bodges that exist in Java (for instance). See Rich's 'deprecated' example
for instance.

I think that C++ has the '#pragma' construct for that sort of extension, or
keywords with two leading underscores that are reserved to a particular
implementation and should be ignored otherwise. Not new ideas...

Paul

"Adam Flinton"  wrote in
message news:3f9579e3{at}w3.nls.net...
> Paul Ranson wrote:
>
> > So why bring up JavaDoc rather than operator overloading, lack of
compile
> > time type safety, 'finalization', memory leaks in the face of a GC or
> > 'interfaces'? To name just a few that I happen to know about.
> >
>
> Because we were discussing comments & their abuse in HTML.
>
> Adam
>

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