Masaharu Goto <MXJ02154@nifty.ne.jp> writes: > Hello, > > Cint supports Japanese multi-byte characters. For doing so, > other 8bit characters are sacrificed. I'll introduce a feature > to support 8bit character comments (by disabling multi-byte character > support) in cint5.14.73. It will be achieved by -m option > to cint or '.lang EUR' command. > > Thank you > Masaharu Goto > Won't this leas to script incompatibilities, i.e. scripts written with multi-byte comments cannot be combined with script written with 8bit comments? Such an incompatibility should be avoided if possible! I think the *best* way would be to encourage users to use neither 8bit nor multi-byte comments but plain english, because this also increases the usability of scripts because the possibe user base is bigger. How many new collaboration members had to try to understand old code with comments n a language they did not understand because at the time of writing no one thought about poeple with different language skills? At least the interpreter should choke on different languages in the comments. btw, what does the C++ standard say on non-7bit characters in source codes? Greetings, Juergen -- Dr. Juergen Hannappel Office: W148 Phone: +49 228 73 2447 FAX +49 228 73 7869 mailto:hannappel@physik.uni-bonn.de Physikalisches Institut der Uni Bonn http://lisa2.physik.uni-bonn.de/~hannappe Nussallee 12, D-53115 Bonn, Germany CERN: Phone: +412276 76461 Fax: 77930 Bat. 892-R-A13 F-01631 CERN CEDEX, France
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