From: Roman Perepelitsa <roman.perepelitsa@gmail.com>
To: Roman Perepelitsa <roman.perepelitsa@gmail.com>,
Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>,
Zsh hackers list <zsh-workers@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: Block comments ala Ray
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2021 08:46:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAN=4vMq15ThES+Oqwk4JC8WiAZJbrDtPF6wFzqu+-LFqnUMaUw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210212074031.7746vg37xykniem5@chazelas.org>
On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 8:40 AM Stephane Chazelas <stephane@chazelas.org> wrote:
>
> 2021-02-12 07:41:50 +0100, Roman Perepelitsa:
> [...]
> > And almost never like this:
> >
> > /*
> > Lorem ipsum
> > dolor sit amet
> > */
> >
> > So block comments in my experience are most often used as if they were
> > single-line comments.
> [...]
>
> Block comments are useful to comment out sections of code
Indeed. Some projects ban block comments from committed code
specifically to allow one to easily disable a block of code during
development. In C we can employ the preprocessor for this purpose
(which allows for arbitrary nesting) but not all languages are so
lucky.
Roman.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-12 7:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-10 6:05 Bart Schaefer
2021-02-10 6:16 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2021-02-12 6:17 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-02-12 6:26 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-02-12 6:41 ` Roman Perepelitsa
2021-02-12 7:40 ` Stephane Chazelas
2021-02-12 7:46 ` Roman Perepelitsa [this message]
2021-02-12 15:30 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-02-12 15:45 ` Stephane Chazelas
2021-02-12 16:55 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-02-12 18:16 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2021-02-12 21:02 ` Stephane Chazelas
2021-02-12 21:12 ` Stephane Chazelas
2021-02-12 21:29 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-02-13 7:37 ` Stephane Chazelas
2021-02-15 22:28 ` Daniel Shahaf
2021-02-13 4:33 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-02-15 0:42 ` Greg Klanderman
2021-02-12 15:24 ` Matthew Martin
2021-02-12 16:18 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-02-15 21:30 ` Daniel Shahaf
2021-02-15 22:35 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-02-12 20:48 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-02-13 8:35 ` Stephane Chazelas
2021-02-13 8:53 ` Stephane Chazelas
2021-02-14 20:50 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-02-14 20:15 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-02-15 0:36 ` Vincent Lefevre
2021-02-15 1:07 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-02-15 1:38 ` Vincent Lefevre
2021-02-15 17:43 ` Stephane Chazelas
2021-02-15 22:06 ` Daniel Shahaf
2021-02-15 22:39 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-02-14 20:58 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-02-16 15:30 ` Juergen Christoffel
2021-02-16 17:21 ` Vincent Lefevre
2021-02-16 18:29 ` Bart Schaefer
2021-02-16 21:35 ` Juergen Christoffel
2021-02-16 18:21 ` pod documentation in zsh scripts (Was: Block comments ala Ray) Stephane Chazelas
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