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Re: Calling all Meta-commands
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Sat, 22 Mar 2003 15:53:52 GMT
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On Sat, Mar 22, 2003 at 12:43:43PM +0000, Kevin Clague wrote:
> > What's wrong with -?
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> 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.
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> I've programmed for 30 years, and I've never seen hyphen used as a start of
> comment.
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 is way overdue for change anyway) just to put some options up.
While I don't think the file standard should be built in a democratic
process, it doesn't hurt to get some un-scientific, inaccurate data!
:)
--
Dan Boger
dan@peeron.com
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| (...) 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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