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Subject: Re: Invade wikipedia!
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On Feb 24, 7:48=A0pm, Hibou57 (Yannick Duch=EAne)
<yannick_duch...@yahoo.fr> wrote:
> On 24 f=E9v, 15:50, Martin <martin.do...@btopenworld.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Could we agree get rid of the box comments, e.g.
>
> > =A0 =A0------------------
> > =A0 =A0-- Do_Something --
> > =A0 =A0------------------
>
> > =A0 =A0procedure Do_Something ...;
>
> > Cheers
> > -- Martin
>
> Please, help me to understand : what's the trouble with this ?

It takes up *so* much room on the page. And, if you have a capable IDE
(eg, Emacs with imenu), you can hop straight to each subprogram/type
declaration ..

Nothing against box comments per se, but they seem to fit better with
major structural divisions.