From: RC <rc1@clanchy.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Ada's Assembly Language Comments
Date: 1997/07/03
Date: 1997-07-03T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <y8xisHAeZ5uzYwIm@clanchy.demon.co.uk> (raw)
Why does Ada have only the " -- " assembly language style, in-line
comments and not block structured ones as in C or Pascal or better still
nested block structured comments as in Modula 2?
There must be some opinions on this but the only justifications I have
heard seem rather spurious. (For example: "a student once had
compilation problems when an open coment block went off the right hand
of the screen with an editor which had line wrapping turned off.")
The elegance of user defined stucture of code seems to rather disappear
with the "knife and fork" nature of these comments.
RC1
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1997-07-03 0:00 RC [this message]
1997-07-03 0:00 ` Ada's Assembly Language Comments Peter Hermann
1997-07-03 0:00 ` RC
1997-07-08 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1997-07-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-07-03 0:00 ` Kenneth W. Sodemann
1997-07-04 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1997-07-08 0:00 ` Kenneth W. Sodemann
1997-07-08 0:00 ` RC
1997-07-11 0:00 ` Robert Munck
1997-07-11 0:00 ` Dan Johnston D.B.
1997-07-13 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-07-03 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1997-07-04 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1997-07-07 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1997-07-08 0:00 ` RC
1997-07-08 0:00 ` RC
1997-07-11 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1997-07-11 0:00 ` Joerg Rodemann
1997-07-11 0:00 ` Stuart Palin
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