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Vladimir Panteleev <dlang-bugzilla@thecybershadow.net> changed:

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berni44 <bugzilla@d-ecke.de> changed:

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RazvanN <razvan.nitu1305@gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #1 from RazvanN <razvan.nitu1305@gmail.com> ---
The grammar is correct and the spec states: "Block comments can span multiple lines, but do not nest."

This should suffice.

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--- Comment #2 from Kevin <kevin@brogan.ca> ---
1) The technical language specification which one would use to build a parser is still incorrect, regardless of any flavour text in the description.

2) you only addressed the second part of the issue, completely ignoring the first.

3) your "it's good enough" comment is just another reminder as to why I pivoted away from the language.

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kdevel <kdevel@vogtner.de> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from kdevel <kdevel@vogtner.de> ---
(In reply to Kevin from comment #0)

> The c++ spec handles this by describing comments in a non technical manner. See  [lex.comment] in the spec.

Correct: https://eel.is/c++draft/lex.comment

Another technical mistake one finds in D's definition of StringLiteral:

https://dlang.org/spec/lex.html#string_literals

while the C++ standards carefully define what can be inside of the quotation
marks (s-chars)

https://eel.is/c++draft/lex.string

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