DMD 1.021 and 2.004 releases

[Stewart Gordon]

"Walter Bright" <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
news:fc45ic$1k04$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Stewart Gordon wrote:
>> Maybe.  But still, nested comments are probably likely to be supported by 
>> more code editors than such an unusual feature as delimited strings.
>
> Delimited strings are standard practice in Perl.

But how many editors do a good job of syntax-highlighting Perl anyway, 
considering the mutual dependence between the lexer and the parser?

> C++0x is getting delimited strings.  Code editors that can't handle them 
> are going to become rapidly obsolete.

Maybe.  But an editor being obsolete doesn't stop people from using it and 
even liking it for the features it does have.  Take the number of people 
still using TextPad, for instance.

> The more unusual feature is the token delimited strings.

Indeed.

Stewart.