Multiline Comments

mps@dent.uchicago.edu (Michael Spertus)
Mon, 10 Jan 1994 14:29:11 GMT

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From: mps@dent.uchicago.edu (Michael Spertus)
Keywords: design
Organization: Dept. of Mathematics
References: 94-01-029 94-01-032
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 1994 14:29:11 GMT

Perhaps this is not the appropriate venue but the problem of multiline
comments occurs in all languages. At Geodesic system we have the following
convention for C++. All comments begin //, never /*, and comment extensions
begin ///.


x = y; // A comment on this
y = z; /// extends to the next line
z = w; // A new comment.


The problem is that pretty printers and browsers are also consumers of
comments so they must be machine readable to some extent.


We also have the convension that //- is a stripable comment. That is
tools may introduce //- comments into a program and the editor can
strip them all out.
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