On 2020/10/18 22:47, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Daniel Dickman: > > > The comment looks a bit.... odd. > > > -COMMENT= Berkeley's implementation of the logo programming language#' > > +COMMENT= Berkeley's implementation of the logo programming language > > An unbalanced single quote causes a problem somewhere. I forgot. > Maybe just syntax highlighting? Anyway, this format balances the > quote, but comments out the closing one at the same time. There > are 17 ports in the tree that use this idiom in COMMENT.
Yes, just syntax highlighting. It used to affect vim and emacs, but vim can handle it now. Ports used to have " surrounding all COMMENT, for example in r1.1 this port had COMMENT= "berkeley's implementation of the logo programming language" Later, " were removed from COMMENT across the whole ports tree.
