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From: Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Is there a way to do large block of source code comments
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 10:22:43 +0200
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On 03.09.14 02:07, robin.vowels@gmail.com wrote:
> When a block of code is to be omitted (temporarily or semi-permanently)
> it's convenient to have something like /* and */ as comment markers.

Convenience for the writer.  Having been the one to study
someone else's™ code, broken as it was, in order to learn
what the heck it does, I hate this feature. And no, no shiny
magic in "powerful" editing equipment will work.

OTOH, I know how embarrassing it is for a programmer to
admit that he is not really skilled in using editors.