OpenEuphoria

Re: Interpreter Mod We Can All Get Behind

• Posted by Jason Gade <jaygade at y?hoo.com> Nov 21, 2007
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CChris wrote:
> Wouldn't
>    ++ -- by itself on a line, with an optional comment
> whatever text you may come up with
> scanning several lines
> and which the @#}{} interpreter will happily ignore.
> You noticed that leading whitespace doesn't count.
> ++ -- again by itself with an optional comment
> be nice?
> 
> Aren't we all using syntax highlighting when programming? It is not strictly
> necessary, of course - we could also code using a stiletto and clay tablets,
> after all. The highlighting will immediately tell you you are in a block
> comment.
> Coding technology has improved since the days of PL/1.
> 
> CChris

Well, I usually use Vim. I guess that you could compare that with using a stylus
and clay tablets ;)

But I use it with syntax highlighting as well.

For block comment, my vote would be this notation:
--* block comment --*

or even better:
--/ block comment --/

Hmm. Yeah. I have no strong opinion as to whether it should implemented, but I
like how that looks.

I had been thinking of this as well:
--/ block comment /--

Whichever.

--
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple
system that works.
--John Gall's 15th law of Systemantics.

"Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming."
--C.A.R. Hoare

j.