OpenEuphoria

Re: Block Commenting

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> Aug 03, 2003
• 440 views

Dave Probert wrote:
> Any chance we'll see block commenting abilities in the next Euphoria?

I don't think so.
I'm not interested in having two different ways
to write comments. In ed, I hit F12 a bunch of times
to comment out a block. (uncommenting isn't quite as easy)

> Also is there any chance of gathering together some of the more useful 
> (small!) code funcs/procs, that are often rewritten by coders, into a 
> base include file (ie one that is supplied with the standard Euphoria 
> download)?

Do you want me to maintain a bunch of code written
by other people? When they change/improve their code
will I have to keep my version up to date as well?

> Possibly worth asking for submissions for the above.
> 
> The main reason for this would be to reduce the number of "This 
> application requires the xxx library to work"  when people supply their 
> tools (or else people often include them as well, so there can be 
> various versions of the same file located in many folders).

Maybe we just need a big index that you can search
that will tell you where to find the latest version
of an include file. I could periodically run
a program that would go through all 1100+ .zip files,
and prepare a sorted list of all the contained files,
along with their time stamp and size. Maybe I could
list all the global symbols and index them somehow too.

Regards,
    Rob Craig
    Rapid Deployment Software
    http://www.RapidEuphoria.com