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Re: Calling all Meta-commands
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Sat, 22 Mar 2003 04:49:12 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Tim Courtney wrote:

In lugnet.cad.dev, Steve Bliss writes:
Some people already use COMMENT.

Nit: That's a bit too much for my tastes.

I agree.

What's wrong with //?

What's wrong with -?

Steve



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  Re: Calling all Meta-commands
 
(...) I've been avoiding weighing in on this issue but.. How about a double hyphen, '--' -Orion (22 years ago, 22-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
  Re: Calling all Meta-commands
 
(...) Steve, *anything* is better than nothing. Trying to read a DAT/LDR program that has *lots* of comments with interspersed meta-commands is really hard. I've programmed for 30 years, and I've never seen hyphen used as a start of comment. I guess (...) (22 years ago, 22-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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  Re: Calling all Meta-commands
 
(...) Right. Elsewhere in the thread you'll see I tested it in LEdit and it crashed -- that was soon ruled out of the discussion, at least for now :-) (...) Nit: That's a bit too much for my tastes. What's wrong with //? -Tim (22 years ago, 22-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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