multiline comments

[Sion Arrowsmith]

Edward Elliott  <nobody at 127.0.0.1> wrote:
>Sion Arrowsmith wrote:
>> Really? Under what circumstances is it easier to see what's going on
>> with start/end comments than with comment-to-end-of-line?
>Off the top of my head:
> [ ... ]

It appears to me that our fundamental difference is that you see value
in long-term preservation of sections of commented-out code without
any kind of real comment as to what's going on, whereas I consider
this to be appallingly bad practice.

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