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From: Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net>
Subject: Re: Is there a way to do large block of source code comments
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 10:57:39 +0200
Date: 2014-09-03T10:57:39+02:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1409734659.7121.231.camel@obry.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4407fc6e-a3a6-47d6-8f49-a5a0a1e8e0c4@googlegroups.com

Le mercredi 03 septembre 2014 à 01:23 -0700, gdotone@gmail.com a
écrit : 
> very good suggestion (* ...  *) 
> 
> -* *-, {* ... *}, [- ... -], --| ... |--, -| ... |-, *| ... |*, it's just a matter of finding the Ada 202X way :-)
> 
> perhaps, in 202X, there may be a way to include actual icons in the code as in apple's swift.
> we could end up with some nicely designed bookends to handle the job.

I bet this will never happen in Ada 202x or whatever. This feature is
too dangerous as others have said. It is too easy to have:

/* 
code1
/*
code2
*/

And to think that removing the second /* will actually activate code2.
And this is not fiction, I have seen this in real code. Of course here
it is easy to see, but on comments that span multiple pages...

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-03  8:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-01 17:24 Is there a way to do large block of source code comments gdotone
2014-09-01 19:04 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-09-03  0:07   ` robin.vowels
2014-09-03  0:44     ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-09-03  1:15       ` gdotone
2014-09-03  4:17         ` J-P. Rosen
2014-09-03  8:04       ` Brian Drummond
2014-09-03  0:50     ` Adam Beneschan
2014-09-04  2:30       ` robin.vowels
2014-09-04 15:12         ` Adam Beneschan
2014-09-03  8:22     ` Georg Bauhaus
2014-09-03  8:28     ` Stefan.Lucks
2014-09-03  8:23       ` gdotone
2014-09-03  8:57         ` Pascal Obry [this message]
2014-09-03 15:12           ` Stefan.Lucks
2014-09-03 15:52             ` Pascal Obry
2014-09-03 17:48               ` Georg Bauhaus
2014-09-03 18:28                 ` Peter Chapin
2014-09-03 18:52               ` Adam Beneschan
2014-09-03 21:47                 ` gautier_niouzes
     [not found]                   ` <91e173a8-7451-4609-b141-ce3c6b19455f@googlegroups.com>
2014-09-04  5:56                     ` Pascal Obry
2014-09-03 22:42                 ` Georg Bauhaus
2014-09-03 21:02               ` Stefan.Lucks
2014-10-01 21:15                 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-09-03 16:58       ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-09-04 18:19       ` Keith Thompson
2014-09-03 15:32     ` Shark8
2014-09-04  2:37       ` robin.vowels
2014-09-04  7:20         ` Georg Bauhaus
2014-09-04 12:46           ` robin.vowels
2014-09-04 15:44             ` G.B.
2014-09-12  2:52         ` Shark8
2014-09-01 19:08 ` Niklas Holsti
2014-09-01 20:34   ` G.B.
2014-09-01 20:53     ` Niklas Holsti
2014-09-02 13:14       ` G.B.
2014-09-02 14:38         ` kalvin.news
2014-09-02 23:33         ` Randy Brukardt
2014-09-03  8:17           ` Georg Bauhaus
2014-09-01 21:15   ` Simon Wright
2014-09-02 15:01   ` Adam Beneschan
2014-09-02 16:35     ` Simon Wright
2014-09-02 17:14     ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-09-02 19:02     ` Niklas Holsti
2014-09-02 20:10       ` mockturtle
2014-09-02 23:36     ` Randy Brukardt
2014-09-01 19:13 ` Anh Vo
2014-09-01 21:04 ` gdotone
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