OpenEuphoria

Re: Version 2.1 alpha-test release now available!

• Posted by "Bown, John" <John.Bown at UK.ORIGIN-IT.COM> Jan 20, 1999
• 555 views

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>>3) Can we allow "//" as well as "--" ( and perhaps even ";" ) to
>>indicate the start of comments; this would help me ( at least ) when
>>swapping and changing between languages ( Java = //, JavaScript = //, C
>>= //, C++ = //, Euphoria = -- ).
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>John... if you want your editor to see the comments, why not simply code:
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>    any_euphoria_statement              -- // my comments here
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Aaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrgggggggggghhhhhhhhhh !

It's a fair 'comment' I suppose  The main reason is not because of
the editor I'm using, just that '--' is completely off-key to '//' which
has become the de-facto comment delimiter in recent years.