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

[robin.vowels@gmail.com]

On Thursday, September 4, 2014 1:32:21 AM UTC+10, Shark8 wrote:
> On 02-Sep-14 18:07, r.nospam@gmail.com wrote:
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> >> No, this was explicitly omitted. See the Ada-83 Rationale 2.1: "Single comments
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> >> >that are larger than one line are not provided. Such comments would require a
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> >> >closing comment delimiter and this would again raise the dangers associated with
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> >> >the (unintentional) omission of the closing delimiter: entire sections of a
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> >> >program could be ignored by the compiler without the programmer realizing it, so
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> >> >that the program would not mean what he thinks. Long comments can be written as
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> >> >a succession of single line comments, thus combining elegance with safety."
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> >
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> > The above quotation is mere hype, like the author's justification for omitting
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> > exponentiation in Pascal, somehow more convenient to use log and exp instead!
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> No, the above is a quotation from the Ada Rationale.

But it's still hype.

> It says that only single-line comments terminated by the end of the line
> were chosen so that there was no way that closing a multiline comment
> could be forgotten. Period.
>
> > Live parsing editors are useful tools, because they highlight
> > code segments (including comments).
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> What has this got to do with *anything* WRT comments?

Um, comments highlighted in a different color from the code
make it clear which is commented.