Re: gnubol: DIVISION/SECTION headers.

[Tim Josling <tej@melbpc.org.au>]

Randall Bart wrote:

> BTW, Tim, you would expand that COPY, right?  Don't worry, that's not
> necessarily wrong.

The standard specifically says a copy in a comment-entry is part of the
comment-entry not a copy, so I don't expand it.

Basically since I found that ". " does not end a comment-entry, a
comment-entry has to be ended by something in area a. There is no other
way that I can see. As Randall pointed out, you can have all sorts of
rubbish - I think even unbalanced quotes are allowed. RB will tell me if
I am wrong - actually I don't want to know :-).

If the punters don't like it they can always put an * in column 7.

> A header must be on its own
> line; other areas of the language are not line based.

Where does it say that?

> Starting a header after the B-margin is available now as an extension in
> most compilers.  It dates to the 1970s.

Yes, with a warning. Also a non-header in A is a warning.

Tim Josling



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