From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id RAA15321; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 17:48:29 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA15315 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 17:48:28 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from dux.ru (ns.dux.ru [193.125.210.65]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h38FmRX23585 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 17:48:27 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from dux.ru (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dux.ru (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h38Fto6X056895 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 19:55:50 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from snob@snob.spb.ru) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by dux.ru (8.12.6/8.12.1/Submit) with UUCP id h38FtoWs056894 for caml-list@inria.fr; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 19:55:50 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from snob@snob.spb.ru) Received: (qmail 1591 invoked by uid 0); 8 Apr 2003 15:41:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO athlon.snob.spb.ru) (unknown) by unknown with SMTP; 8 Apr 2003 15:41:33 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Nickolay Semyonov-Kolchin To: Brian Hurt Subject: Re: [Caml-list] single-line comment request Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 19:25:17 +0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 Cc: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200304081925.17114.snob@snob.spb.ru> X-Spam: no; 0.00; nickolay:01 snob:01 spb:01 caml-list:01 pushes:01 argued:01 ocaml:01 imho:01 writting:01 purely:02 typing:03 wrote:03 perl:03 brian:06 burden:06 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Tuesday 08 April 2003 20:19, Brian Hurt wrote: > Personally, I don't find having to type three extra characters (space > asterix close-paren) to end a comment to be that big of a burden. If a > comment is long enough that three extra characters pushes it over a lin= e > length, then the comment is long enough to deserve it's own line. And = if > the burden of typing the three extra characters is enough that you stop > writting (as many) comments, well, you have other problems IMHO. > > I am not seriously opposed to this, I just don't see the value. > 1) This extension won't broke existing source code. Currently, we can't u= se=20 '##' anywhere in Ocaml. 2) This is programming-style extension. I.e. if you don't like don't use = it. For example, Larry Wall see no reason for multi-line comments. He argued = that=20 single-line comments are much easier to read (See Perl6 design documents)= =2E Again, this extension is purely stylish. Nickolay ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners