From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,38fc011071df5a27 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-05-27 18:38:33 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!newsfeed2.earthlink.net!newsfeed.earthlink.net!stamper.news.pas.earthlink.net!newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3ED41344.7090105@spam.com> From: Jeffrey Carter Organization: jrcarter commercial-at acm [period | full stop] org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ideas for Ada 200X References: <6a90b886.0305262344.1d558079@posting.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 01:38:51 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.184.0.210 X-Complaints-To: abuse@earthlink.net X-Trace: newsread2.prod.itd.earthlink.net 1054085931 63.184.0.210 (Tue, 27 May 2003 18:38:51 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 18:38:51 PDT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:37872 Date: 2003-05-28T01:38:51+00:00 List-Id: Frank wrote: > What about the possibility of commenting several lines like /* ...... */? This was considered and explicitly rejected by the original Ada design team as being too error-prone. Consider /* Comment all this out ... 100 lines Something ("Hey, why not */ Cause A Compilation Error /* huh?"); ... 100 lines end of commented out stuff */ -- Jeff Carter "You've got the brain of a four-year-old boy, and I bet he was glad to get rid of it." Horse Feathers