On Thursday, 03/11/2010 at 03:19 EST, "Daniel P. Martin" <dmar...@gizmoworks.com> wrote: > Well, yes, the semicolon does work... but if you're going to have to > do new work to hack the way DDR parses statements anyhow, REXX-ish > syntax would certainly be a desirable approach. Not that I have any > delusions about the development process being at all democratic, but if > you're considering votes, I vote for: > > - "/* blah blah blah */" syntax for comments > - ";" (semicolon) for statement continuation
Ooooh. Humpty Dumpty strikes again! You have cleverly changed the definition of "desirable" to mean "the most complicated option possible". REXX comments. Nesting. <gack> Semicolons, otoh, are simple to describe and simple to implement. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
