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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
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 09:58:29 -0700
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On 09/03/2014 01:28 AM, Stefan.Lucks@uni-weimar.de wrote:
> 
> Now, I actually think it would have been possible to have block comments the Ada
> way (and is still possible for Ada 202X): Allow block comments (I'd suggest
> Pascal's "(*" and "*)" for their brackets but that is a matter of taste). Just
> prohibit nesting! I.e., any "(*" inside a block comment is a syntax error.
> Conventional "--" comments are allowed, and any "(*" and "*)" inside a
> conventional comment are allowed and ignored (i.e., not treated as block comment
> brackets).

No, the Ada way would be

<identifier> : comment begin
   the identifier is required, here and on the "end comment"

   anything in here is ignored, including any

   end comment <other_identifier>;

   Of course, a "comment begin" without a matching "end comment" is an error,
   as is an "end comment" without a matching "comment begin".
end comment <identifier>;

-- 
Jeff Carter
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