[xquery-talk] Smiley comments

[Adam Retter]

Likewise that was my understanding too.

On 13 June 2015 at 14:53, Joe Wicentowski <joewiz at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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