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

[Stefan.Lucks@uni-weimar.de]

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On Wed, 3 Sep 2014, Pascal Obry wrote:

> Le mercredi 03 septembre 2014 à 01:23 -0700, gdotone@gmail.com a
> écrit :
>> very good suggestion (* ...  *)
>
> I bet this will never happen in Ada 202x or whatever. This feature is
> too dangerous as others have said. It is too easy to have:
>
> /*
> code1
> /*
> code2
> */

Did you actually READ the posting you just replied to?

That posting quoted my suggestion to introduce block comments where the 
opening bracket inside a block comment is plainly prohibited. I.e., the 
compiler would reject your above example with a syntax error in line 3.

This shows that there is a way to make block comments "safe" or "Ada-like" 
... if there is an urgent need for block comments in 202x.

BTW, I agree that I don't see this for "Ada 202x or whatever". I doubt 
that there is a real need for block comments.

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