Re: Ada's Assembly Language Comments

[ica2ph@alpha1.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de (Peter Hermann)]

RC (rc1@clanchy.demon.co.uk) wrote:

> Why does Ada have only the " -- " assembly language style, in-line
> comments and not block structured ones as in C or Pascal or better still
> nested block structured comments as in Modula 2?

Because this is much much more practical in many aspects.
This, however, can only be appreciated by those,
who wrote tons of code themselves.

A serious note on the "block structure"dness of C comments:

They begin a comment with a   /*   (AFAIK ;-)
and end it with a             */

HOWEVER(!) there is no means of further enclosing like

    /*  surrounding text  /*  original text  */   surrounding text */ 

(as the syntax might suggest at first glance)
because the FIRST appearance of    */     will end all commentary.
I consider this paradoxon another unacceptable immaturity,
like so many others.

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