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From: Pascal Obry <pascal@obry.net>
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Subject: Re: Is there a way to do large block of source code comments
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 10:57:39 +0200
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Le mercredi 03 septembre 2014 =C3=A0 01:23 -0700, gdotone@gmail.com a
=C3=A9crit :=20
> very good suggestion (* ...  *)=20
>=20
> -* *-, {* ... *}, [- ... -], --| ... |--, -| ... |-, *| ... |*, it's just=
 a matter of finding the Ada 202X way :-)
>=20
> 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:

/*=20
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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