Re: Comments

[ok@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au (Richard A. O'Keefe)]

ennals@aol.com writes:

>It can be useful for describing what function calls etc do.
>For example I might write a procedure (fake code)

>procedure brcp(s : screen ; i : image ; c : colours); 
>#desc Build Really Cool Picture on screen %s of image %i with %c colours

But in Ada I can write

	procedure Build_Really_Cool_Picture(
	   Of_Image : in Image;
	   On_Screen: in Screen;
	   Colour_Count: in Positive);

>brcp(myscreen, megaimage, 256);
>the comment would be:

>#com Build really coop picture on screen myscreen of image megaimage with
>256 colours.

and then call it as

	Build_Really_Cool_Picture(Of_Image => Mega_Image,
	   On_Screen => My_Screen, Colour_Count => 256);

If you really want a preprocessor, write one that adds keyword=> to
arguments.
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