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From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
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Subject: Re: A case where Ada defaults to unsafe?
Date: 16 Jan 2002 06:00:37 +0000
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Stuart Palin <stuart.palin@baesystems.com> writes:

> But for those using Ada today the 'die is cast'; and just to be clear -
> my peeve is not that the die is cast (that's life!) - it is that the
> language team did loads of other things to stop 'silly' mistakes -
> including terminating comments at the end of line - but chose a token
> that might easily occur in a mis-typing and could be difficult to spot
> in a code inspection (depending on font etc).

Check out GNU Enscript, it's got nice Ada support and comments are
printed in oblique -- very easy to spot. And if you use emacs ada-mode
or ObjectAda (7.2 at least) comments are coloured.