<p dir="auto">The recent changes in variables.less comment styling has led to Visual Studio 2013 (and maybe others) to mess up the interpretation, as you can see in the screenshot below.</p>
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<p dir="auto">The problem lies in the comment style (which has changed for some unknown reason, correct me if I'm wrong). Would be great if someone could fill me in on that.</p>
<div class="highlight highlight-source-css-less notranslate position-relative overflow-auto" dir="auto" data-snippet-clipboard-copy-content="//** Comment"><pre class="notranslate"><span class="pl-c"><span class="pl-c">//</span>** Comment</span></pre></div>
<p dir="auto">Simple fix would be adding a space:</p>
<div class="highlight highlight-source-css-less notranslate position-relative overflow-auto" dir="auto" data-snippet-clipboard-copy-content="// ** Comment"><pre class="notranslate"><span class="pl-c"><span class="pl-c">//</span> ** Comment</span></pre></div>
<p dir="auto">I'm not sure why the comments in the <code class="notranslate">variables.less</code> got changed to this style <code class="notranslate">//**</code>, but it my opinion it was a brave move.</p>
<p dir="auto">For me at least it prevents compilation when using the nodejs compiler <code class="notranslate">lessc</code>.</p>
<p dir="auto">At also breaks the syntax highlighting in my IDE, Visual Studio 2013</p>