Block Comments in V2

re: Block Comments in V2

Maximilian Hänel — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 18:32:19 GMT

Nice to hear! However the <# #> literals look quite ugly to me. Any comments on why you choose these literals and not e.g. /* */ like in c++, c# and other languages?

tia

re: Block Comments in V2

Smith Catar — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 12:00:15 GMT

Oh...Microsoft will excute Stop-Leak cmdlet for you...

re: Block Comments in V2

Chuck Heatherly — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:50:01 GMT

Thanks Jeffrey, good to have this feature coming!

re: Block Comments in V2

Rob Lancaster — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:19:50 GMT

Block comments good. Choice of delimiters? Hmmm.

One of my favourite languages REBOL (hint, hint, prod) has many different datatypes. Okay, maybe far too many datatypes? ;->

But, one of those data types is a tag!

i.e

type? <html width="100">

>> tag!

in much the same way you can go:

type? "My name as a string"

>> string!

This means you can use xml and html in your code without having to escape the entire text on quotes...

ie write-host "<tag here="30">

would become

write-host <tag here="30">

Now I'd much rather see the angle brackets used for a nifty language features like this with respect to XML - than used for block comments..

Cos then.. would return a list of three items...

function web-page()

{

<html>

"This is my $name"

</html>

}

web-page | out-server

Cheers,

Rob Lancaster