On Sunday, 15 March 2015 at 09:13:19 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 3/14/2015 10:28 PM, deadalnix wrote:
I use them all the time, and cringe whenever I code in
something else because i
don't have them. Once you have /* comments */ in some piece of
code, you can't
comment blocks without going through hoops. that is very
annoying./+ comments +/
are one of the simple thing that makes coding in D much more
pleasant.
Use:
version (none)
{
...
}
instead of:
/+
...
+/
Nope, that requires the commented-out part to be syntactically
correct. My primary use-case for /+ +/ is during development,
when I quickly need to disable specific parts of code. These
frequently don't coincide with syntactic boundaries.
On a related note, see how difficult it is to remove a feature?
Every time I propose one, someone pops up and says they built
their life around it :-)
At least in this case, it's because they are actually useful, and
there is no convenient replacement. Besides, why would you want
to remove them again? Just so we can say, "Look, we removed a
feature!"? They're so trivial to implement and support, and so
easy to learn, that their presence does not add a significant
cost.
