[xquery-talk] Smiley comments

[Ihe Onwuka]

It will probably be the best $4.48 you ever spent.

http://www.amazon.com/XQuery-Experts-Guide-Query-Language/dp/0321180607/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1434206347&sr=8-2&keywords=xquery+for+the+experts

On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 9:53 AM, 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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>>
>>
>
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