TODO and FIXME tags

[Falcolas]

On Nov 17, 4:27 am, "Martin P. Hellwig" <martin.hell... at dcuktec.org>
wrote:
> Ben Finney wrote:
> > Chris Rebert <c... at rebertia.com> writes:
>
> >> 2009/11/16 Yasser Almeida Hernández <pedro... at fenhi.uh.cu>:
> >>> How is the sintaxis for set the TODO and FIXME tags...?
> >> There is no special syntax for those. Some people use them in
> >> comments, but it's just a convention.
>
> > This is true. However, the convention is fairly well established, and
> > many text editor default configurations will highlight the strings
> > ‘TODO’, ‘FIXME’, and others wherever they appear in comments.
>
> > There's no widely-followed “syntax” for this convention, though.

I have noticed that within Python XXX as an identifier is fairly
popular as well - it's used throughout the standard libraries, and is
recognized by many syntax highlighting schemes, as well as Pylint.

Garrick