From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

No I'm with you on this one. Altering comments or even removing them
completely should not make any difference, so comments should never have
anything inside them that makes any difference to how the rest of the
message/code is handled.

Antti Kurenniemi

"Geo."  wrote in message
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> Am I the only person who thinks that comments in code are for humans not
for
> the machine? I mean isn't the whole reason you mark something as a comment
> so that the machine knows to just skip it?
>
> Geo.
>
> "John Beamish"  wrote in message
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> Not a good example, Rich.
>
> The opening sentence on the page reads "One of the most common operations
> performed in a Web page is to detect the browser type and version. "
>
> George was talking about using Word for an email editor.  Web pages and
> email/spammail are hardly likely to be overlapping sets.
>
>   "Rich"  wrote in message news:3f8da505$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>      These are not comments to be read.  These are conditional comments
>
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/dhtml/overview/ccomment_ovw.asp)
> and have meaning.
>
>      You have only yourself to blame for deploying something you obviously
> did not test.
>
>   Rich
>
>     "Geo."  wrote in message
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>
>     Well Microsoft to the rescue.. All the idiots who use Word 10 as their
> email
>     editor are now generating code with tons of comments like:
>
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>     I mean come on people, is anyone at Microsoft even thinking about how
> this
>     affects things, do they WANT more spam? What are you guys thinking,
> someone
>     actually reads the SOURCE besides email admins trying to filter the
> crap?
>
>     Geo.
>
>
>

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