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Re: Calling all Meta-commands
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lugnet.cad.dev
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Sat, 22 Mar 2003 15:59:50 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Dan Boger writes:
> 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.
> >
> > I've programmed for 30 years, and I've never seen hyphen used as a start of
> > comment.
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> not that anyone ever heard of it, but ESQL (IBM language for MQSI) uses
> double hyphen for comments.
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> 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!
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> :)
Ok... I'll throw it on the to-do list to dig up the poll documentation and
change it. Lazy me!
-Tim
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| (...) I searched through all my LDraw email archives, with key messages going back to 1999(!), and couldn't find it. So, I emailed Jacob for instructions and will get this done in the next day or so, when he gets that to me. -Tim (22 years ago, 22-Mar-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)
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| | Re: Calling all Meta-commands
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| (...) 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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