From: "Paul Ranson" 

Why would you expect Java to have similar bodges to HTML?

Paul

"Adam Flinton"  wrote in
message news:3f94f491$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> Paul Ranson wrote:
>
> > I think you won't find HTML in comments, you'll find scripts and other
> > executables. And it's to do with backward compatibility. I don't see the
> > problem. You're a Java user and advocate, you're used to a bodged
language.
> >
> > Paul
> >
> > "Adam Flinton"  wrote
in message
> > news:3f93db4d$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> >
> >>Not so it would seem given you can chuck code & possibly
more html into
> >>the comments which would be parsed (because they're not really comments
> >>) thus could provide something for the interpreter to choke on.
> >>
> >>Adam
> >>
> >
> >
> The only similar thing in java is JavaDoc & then you can strip all of
> that out w/o changing the program one whit.
>
> Adam
>

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