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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.


  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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