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From: Alfred Hilscher <Spam@alfred-hilscher.de>
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Subject: Re: Ideas for Ada 200X
Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 19:35:56 +0200
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Why mark the beginning/ending of comments? Isn't the compiler
intelligent enough to see what is meant as code and what should be
interpreted as comment ;-)

...
i : integer; Hey compiler don't read this
Dear compiler, I know, you know this is no code ;-) 
i:=0; And this is a commentar, too.
...

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Gautier Write-only schrieb:
> 
> Frank:
> 
> > What about the possibility of commenting several lines like /* ...... */?
> 
> Hey cool! I would add the possibility of nesting several of
> such comments, or not, and why not also the { } and (* *) of Pascal.
> A pragma would allow ending a { by a *) or */, or not, and ignoring
> or not the rest of a line inside a "/*" after a -- (even if it has a */).
> Did you understand ? I mean, it's simple.
> And what about including chuncks of code - it would be so cool to
> just insert "c:\...\mytools.inc" at some place instead of these packages.
> Another idea: make some names implicitly type. E.g. I, J5, InJm
> and so on are always integers, so why declare them ?
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