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From: Jeffrey Carter <spam.jrcarter.not@spam.not.acm.org>
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Subject: Re: Is there a way to do large block of source code comments
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On 09/01/2014 10:24 AM, gdotone@gmail.com wrote:
> 
> 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.

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."

http://archive.adaic.com/standards/83rat/html/ratl-02-01.html#2.1

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Jeff Carter
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