Case Sensitive, Multiline Comments

[D H]

Roy Smith wrote:
> In article <z5adnQMsOLiL7AffRVn-hQ at comcast.com>, D H <a at b.c> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Elliot Temple wrote:
>>
>>>Hi I have two questions.  Could someone explain to me why Python is
>>>case sensitive?  I find that annoying.  
>>
>>I do too.  As you've found, the only reason is because it is, and it is 
>>too late to change (it was even too late back in 1999 when it was 
>>considered by Guido).  I guess the most popular case-insensitive 
>>language nowadays is visual basic (and VB.NET).
>>
>> > Also, why aren't there
>>
>>>multiline comments?  Would adding them cause a problem of some sort?
>>
>>Again, just because there aren't and never were.  There is no technical 
>>reason (like for example a parsing conflict) why they wouldn't work in 
>>python.  That's why most python editors have added a comment section 
>>command that prepends # to consecutive lines for you.
> 
> 
> If it really bothers you that there's no multi-line comments, you could 
> always use triple-quoted strings.

Where did I say that?

> I actually don't like multi-line comments.  They're really just syntactic 
> sugar, and when abused, they can make code very difficult to understand.  
> Just wait until the day you're trying to figure out why some C++ function 
> is behaving the way it is and you don't notice that a 50-line stretch of 
> code is commented out with /* at the top and */ at the bottom.

Same with triple quotes, btw.