Re: RFC: multiline comments

[Russ Allbery]

Jarkko Hietaniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I also confess to liking // more for till-end-of-line comment marker
> than #, the hash looks so messy to my eye...of course, // already has
> a meaning...

I'm the other way around.

This may depend a lot on whether one comes from a shell scripting
background or from a C++ background.  I strongly dislike C++ and other
than Perl primarily use C and shell, so # is the most natural to me and //
looks really odd.

Of course, like you said, we really can't use // anyway, as it's valid
Perl code and actually semi-frequently used.

I do agree that there's a lot to be said for using /* ... */ for multiline
comments, but then I'm a C programmer.

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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED])             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>