Re: Islands and streams [Was: convert regex.c, .... to standard C]

[Stefan Monnier]

>>> What do people think (other than the obvious, that I should implement it
>>> myself ;-)?
>> FWIW, I think it's worthwhile to look at multi-major-mode support in the
>> context of strings and comments.
> Can you explain what you mean?

That the content of strings and comment should be interpreted as being
in a different mode (e.g. text-mode).  From this point of view, *all*
programming languages need support for multiple major modes.


        Stefan