Re: multi-line like C-style comments ( /* code */ ) in bash

[Dennis Williamson]

On Sat, Sep 7, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Edik Bondarenko
<bondarenkoedik@gmail.com>wrote:

> I am added function `discard_multiline_comments` which disables code
> between /* and */ (C-style comments).
> The body of the function is located in the file y.tab.c : 5140 .
> Can this functionality be added in the next release ?
>

I didn't download your oversized tarball so I didn't read your code.
However, I feel safe in assuming that it doesn't properly handle a very
common character sequence in Bash scripts. Something along the lines of:

# simplified versions
dirname=${filename%/*}
basename=${filename##*/}

and others

I oppose this patch as well.



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