Re: Comments, was Programming language and IDE design

"BartC" <bc@freeuk.com>
Fri, 1 Aug 2014 13:15:04 -0400 (EDT)

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From: "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2014 13:15:04 -0400 (EDT)
Organization: virginmedia.com
References: 13-10-016 13-10-022 13-10-025
Keywords: syntax, design, comment
Posted-Date: 01 Aug 2014 13:15:04 EDT

"BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> wrote in message news:13-10-025@comp.compilers...


> (I've used 'fi', 'esac' and 'od' for 30 years, they seem completely
> natural to me. However, 'hctiws', 'pool', 'nigeb', 'noitcnuf' and such
> look seriously weird...)
>
> [ COMMENT looks fine to me TNEMMOC -John]


That would be preferable to actual Algol-68 syntax which seems to use
COMMENT ... COMMENT bracketing. If used to comment out blocks of code, you
can't tell, at a glance, whether any particular COMMENT is an opening or
closing one! It makes nested comments awkward too; a bit like using {,{
braces instead of {,}.


--
Bartc
[Algol68 used comment, co, #, or ¢ (a cent sign) in matching pairs
to delimit comments, sort of like recent languages use '' and "" for
strings. No doubt it seemed like a good idea at the time. -John]

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