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Re: Calling all Meta-commands
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lugnet.cad.dev
Date: 
Sat, 22 Mar 2003 12:43:43 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Steve Bliss writes:
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, *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 I'd rather pick something that might be familiar to some, that not
familiar to any.


Steve



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  Re: Calling all Meta-commands
 
(...) not that anyone ever heard of it, but ESQL (IBM language for MQSI) uses double hyphen for comments. That said, if I had to choose between '--' and '//', I'd go with the slashes. oooh - here's an idea. We could change the Ldraw.org poll (which (...) (22 years ago, 22-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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(...) I agree. (...) What's wrong with -? Steve (22 years ago, 22-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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