Group comment

Josiah Carlson jcarlson at nospam.uci.edu
Tue Mar 2 20:40:27 EST 2004


>>You may as well suggest /* and */, as they are far more well known, and 
>>significantly more acceptable (in my opinion) than your syntax. 
>>Considering that /* */ has not already been added to the language, I 
>>doubt that an aribirary magical syntax for commenting code would be added.
>>
> 
> 
> /*
> /* you missed the point */
> */

I understood that nuance, and while your syntax allows nesting of 
comments, it is still arbitrary and magical.  May as well use an "if 
False:" construct and gain the benefit of visual indentation, regardless 
of an editor's syntax highlighting capability.

  - Josiah



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