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Date:      Sun, 26 Dec 1999 17:43:04 +0800
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
To:        "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
Cc:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src Makefile.inc1 
Message-ID:  <19991226094304.E4A721CCE@overcee.netplex.com.au>
In-Reply-To: Message from "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>  of "Sun, 26 Dec 1999 15:43:55 %2B0900." <3865B92B.B960215F@newsguy.com> 

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"Daniel C. Sobral" wrote:
> Peter Wemm wrote:
> > 
> > Looking over the -C stuff, I'm not sure why the switch was added.  The
> > comment marker (two delimter chars at the beginning of a file) wouldn't
> > have been legal anyway.  strfile doesn't do anything special and the lines
> > go in just as normal. IMHO, -C should be removed and the comment check made
> > unconditional.
> 
> A flag is setted, just like for rot13'ed things.
> 
> If you have any doubts about it actually working, just test it.

I'm not saying that it doesn't work, just that detection of comments should
always be "on" and not a switch.  rot13 can't be "detected", comments can.

Cheers,
-Peter



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