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		tdeck on June 30, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Learn Lua in 15 Minutes (2013) Both VHDL and SQL use -- for comments, so I'm kinda surprised that this us the first time you've seen this style.

samatman on June 30, 2020 | [–]

Haskell as well, I think of -- as 'standard', along with /* // and #.

Lisp's ; is narrowly my favourite, but I suspect that's more because I like lisps than any inherent virtue...

Traster on July 1, 2020 | [–]

It's not the -- it's the --[[ that I find weird.

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