Re: Is there a way to do large block of source code comments

[gdotone@gmail.com]

On Wednesday, September 3, 2014 2:29:33 AM UTC-4, Stefan...@uni-weimar.de wrote:

> You don't need to agree with that decision by the Ada designers -- I am 
> not sure if I would agree with that either -- but you should understand 
> that it was something the Ada designers had carefully considered before, 
> very much unlike the Pascal example you gave, which was really an ad-hoc 
> decision, for the convenience of the compiler writer.
> 
> Now, I actually think it would have been possible to have block comments 
> the Ada way (and is still possible for Ada 202X): Allow block comments 
> (I'd suggest Pascal's "(*" and "*)" for their brackets but that is a 
> matter of taste). Just prohibit nesting! I.e., any "(*" inside a block 
> comment is a syntax error. Conventional "--" comments are allowed, and any 
> "(*" and "*)" inside a conventional comment are allowed and ignored (i.e., 
> not treated as block comment brackets). 
> 
> This language feature would allow to easily comment out large program 
> parts without safety issues. But I doubt there is actually much demand for  
> that in the Ada community!
> 

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.

g.