Re: Doc Comments cause parser errors

From:	Andi Gutmans	Date:	Wed, 02 Apr 2003 06:23:44 +0000
Subject:	Re: Doc Comments cause parser errors
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At 08:16 AM 4/2/2003 +0200, Sascha Schumann wrote:

On Wed, 2 Apr 2003, Andi Gutmans wrote: AFAIK, doc comments are for classes and functions only. I think this is what's important because interfaces are functions not variables.
    Hm, so my PHP 4-stylish code would cause a parse error, if it
    contained a valid character like a "*" after the initiation
    sequence "/*"?

Oh, I didn't think of that. You are completely right. This is definitely a problem. Andrei's patch returns a token for /** */ on the parser level so only places which are allowed to have this work. This sounds like a serious flaw because any place which has such comments will fail. I guess we'll need to revert his patch and try to think of a completely different way of doing it (unless someone has a good idea of how to solve this problem). Andi