From: Brian Drummond <brian3@shapes.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Is there a way to do large block of source code comments
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 08:04:44 GMT
Date: 2014-09-03T08:04:44+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wYzNv.95622$Fm2.82281@fx30.fr7> (raw)
In-Reply-To: lu5oa3$7n1$2@dont-email.me
On Tue, 02 Sep 2014 17:44:50 -0700, Jeffrey Carter wrote:
> 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.
And if you MUST use block comments, use a language that counts up /*
tokens, counts down */ tokens, and returns to code when count = 0.
Modula-2 was one language that did this - OK, the tokens were (* and *) -
but it was immune to the "oops I missed a block comment in that section,
so my hack went haywire" errors...
- Brian
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Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-01 17:24 Is there a way to do large block of source code comments gdotone
2014-09-01 19:04 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-09-03 0:07 ` robin.vowels
2014-09-03 0:44 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-09-03 1:15 ` gdotone
2014-09-03 4:17 ` J-P. Rosen
2014-09-03 8:04 ` Brian Drummond [this message]
2014-09-03 0:50 ` Adam Beneschan
2014-09-04 2:30 ` robin.vowels
2014-09-04 15:12 ` Adam Beneschan
2014-09-03 8:22 ` Georg Bauhaus
2014-09-03 8:28 ` Stefan.Lucks
2014-09-03 8:23 ` gdotone
2014-09-03 8:57 ` Pascal Obry
2014-09-03 15:12 ` Stefan.Lucks
2014-09-03 15:52 ` Pascal Obry
2014-09-03 17:48 ` Georg Bauhaus
2014-09-03 18:28 ` Peter Chapin
2014-09-03 18:52 ` Adam Beneschan
2014-09-03 21:47 ` gautier_niouzes
[not found] ` <91e173a8-7451-4609-b141-ce3c6b19455f@googlegroups.com>
2014-09-04 5:56 ` Pascal Obry
2014-09-03 22:42 ` Georg Bauhaus
2014-09-03 21:02 ` Stefan.Lucks
2014-10-01 21:15 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-09-03 16:58 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-09-04 18:19 ` Keith Thompson
2014-09-03 15:32 ` Shark8
2014-09-04 2:37 ` robin.vowels
2014-09-04 7:20 ` Georg Bauhaus
2014-09-04 12:46 ` robin.vowels
2014-09-04 15:44 ` G.B.
2014-09-12 2:52 ` Shark8
2014-09-01 19:08 ` Niklas Holsti
2014-09-01 20:34 ` G.B.
2014-09-01 20:53 ` Niklas Holsti
2014-09-02 13:14 ` G.B.
2014-09-02 14:38 ` kalvin.news
2014-09-02 23:33 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-09-03 8:17 ` Georg Bauhaus
2014-09-01 21:15 ` Simon Wright
2014-09-02 15:01 ` Adam Beneschan
2014-09-02 16:35 ` Simon Wright
2014-09-02 17:14 ` Jeffrey Carter
2014-09-02 19:02 ` Niklas Holsti
2014-09-02 20:10 ` mockturtle
2014-09-02 23:36 ` Randy Brukardt
2014-09-01 19:13 ` Anh Vo
2014-09-01 21:04 ` gdotone
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