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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 09/02/2014 05:07 PM, robin.vowels@gmail.com wrote:
> 
> 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!

Funny. It's easy enough to find C++ guidelines that recommend avoiding
multi-line comments because they're error prone. When those who like to use an
error-prone language recommend against a construct because it's error prone, it
must really be bad.

-- 
Jeff Carter
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