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From: RC <rc1@clanchy.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Ada's Assembly Language Comments
Date: 1997/07/03
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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