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Yes... I always found SGML and XML parsing of comments hard to remember all of the quirks...

Delan Azabani
– Delan Azabani

2010-05-03 11:15:52 +00:00
Commented May 3, 2010 at 11:15
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Thanks a lot for mentioning the strange fact with the double hyphens --! I had a case where I commented out a comment. Although I removed the old comment ending, it failed. Example: 

dwettstein
– dwettstein

2015-06-03 11:30:55 +00:00
Commented Jun 3, 2015 at 11:30
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To workaround the double-hyphen limitation you can replace -- with --. It should work the same after uncommenting in most cases.

mik
– mik

2019-02-06 20:00:42 +00:00
Commented Feb 6, 2019 at 20:00

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