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Postings from August 2000
"Michael Mathews" <mmathews@oxygen.com> writes: > Nesting is a problem you don't really want to solve, in my opinion. The > world gets real weird, real fast when you can nest and/or overlap comments. > Not worth the trouble. If the prime argument for mlc is commenting out large blocks of code then you'd better solve the nesting problem -- and do it well. Especially when commenting out large blocks of code one can easily get into the situation that a part of a block is commented out, and then the whole block gets commented out. We do not want the inner comment to terminate the outer one, do we? In any case, commenting out large blocks (more than one visual page) is highly confusing unless you can clearly see what is commented out, for example, by prefixing every line with a '#' or so. -- JohanThread Previous | Thread Next