[xquery-talk] Smiley comments

[Joe Wicentowski]

Thanks, Ihe.  That led me to
https://www.progress.com/xquery/resources/tutorials/learning-xquery/xquery---a-guided-tour
(a site I'd never seen before), which cites _ XQuery from the Experts: A
Guide to the W3C XML Query Language_ (2004) as having said:

XQuery uses "smiley faces" to begin and end comments. This cheerful
> notation was originally suggested by Jeni Tennison.


On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 9:17 AM, Ihe Onwuka <ihe.onwuka at gmail.com> wrote:

> I heard it was Jeni Tennison's idea.
>
> On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 9:12 AM, Joe Wicentowski <joewiz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> On a lighter note, the @xquery twitter account got this question:
>>
>> @xquery Were the smiley faces intentional? :)
>> https://twitter.com/EChan42/status/609465297523838976
>>
>> Can anyone enlighten EChan42 and the seemingly endless stream, in many
>> different languages, of tweets about this lovable aspect of XQuery?
>>
>> Joe
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
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