From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Received: by 10.182.199.4 with SMTP id jg4mr4629300obc.43.1409592289324; Mon, 01 Sep 2014 10:24:49 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.140.93.181 with SMTP id d50mr659128qge.0.1409592289259; Mon, 01 Sep 2014 10:24:49 -0700 (PDT) Path: buffer2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!r2no12218761igi.0!news-out.google.com!q8ni8qal.1!nntp.google.com!dc16no317788qab.1!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2014 10:24:49 -0700 (PDT) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=75.178.36.13; posting-account=bDZo8goAAADwRO71ouDFRMCIZ96XBCK3 NNTP-Posting-Host: 75.178.36.13 User-Agent: G2/1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: Subject: Is there a way to do large block of source code comments From: gdotone@gmail.com Injection-Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 17:24:49 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Xref: number.nntp.dca.giganews.com comp.lang.ada:188780 Date: 2014-09-01T10:24:49-07:00 List-Id: the book i'm using to learn ada has a little age to it. comments are done with --. and the authors suggest ---------- --| --| ---------- for block comments or banner comments. just wondering, has there been an addition to the language that has created something special for multiple line commenting. is there a way to handle several lines at a time without having to do -- on every line? like /* ... ... */ used in C, could be used to handle multiple line comments.