Is there a bug or a feature in the forum?

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In summary, The conversation discusses a hidden feature or bug in the forum's comment tags. The users debate whether it is a bug or a feature and suggest that it may be a problem with the forum's coding or a hack affecting the latex parser.
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Or is it a "feature"? :frown:

Code: 
There is /* something */ hidden here.

is displayed as

There is /* something */ hidden here.
 
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I will use this next time I get the 10char thing! (Earlier I would put a bunch of spaces followed by a .)
Weird though...
 
  • #3
Since / * * / are common comment tags I'm going to put forth that they're being commented out.
 
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I agree with -Job-. And there doesn't seem to be any use of commenting out something in a thread where it's only visible in the source code. Since it's not entirely a bug (commenting is a feature in the language itself) I'd say it's just a mishandling of that tag by the forum.
 
  • #5
Hurkyl, I thought that you were the forum bug, now that we got rid of the penguin...
 
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hmmm it doesn't work with a clean vb, must be one of our hacks, maybe the latex parser is doing something weird.
 

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