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

[Shark8 <OneWingedShark@gmail.com>]

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

No, the above is a quotation from the Ada Rationale.
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).

What has this got to do with *anything* WRT comments?