Re: Syntax of Comments (was: language design tradeoffs)

I'm surprised no one has suggested coloration or styleing to reflect
semantics.


It would be simple enough for a pretty printer to use
font/italics/color/background shadeing for comments, and that would
delineate commented out code in an emphatic way. Of course, one has to
allow the programmer to spec the styling. With a bit of cleverness, it
should even be possible to have the comment markers be invisible, which
should dramatically decrease the noise factor.


Of course, all that begs for a GUI.
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Dana S Emery <de19@umail.umd.edu>
[The thought of zillions of programmers designing listing styles is to me
horrifying. They'll open new horizons in ugliness. A few standard styles
designed by people who knew what they were doing might be OK. -John]
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