Re: Nested comments

[john43]

>It would probably be nice with a line counting
> method that does not have to rescan the match.

As it is now, line counts are nearly free if you 
separate the rules that could match newlines from the 
rules which could never match newlines. The mechanism is 
best suited to scanners which discard whitespace.

>BTW, what happens if the match does not fit into the
>buffer, which might happen if the comment is very long?

The buffer grows with realloc(). However, recall that 
the default buffer size is 16k.

-John