On 2018-06-19 11:21, Chris Angelico wrote: > Isn't it nice how comments, being terminated exclusively by > end-of-line, allow the introduction of subtle bugs? Let's see how many > people spot the (presumably deliberate) bug in Steve's code here.
Hardly subtle. It does also make them considerably easier to remove from code. I think we're all--still--missing the larger point that "easy to remove" is a completely stupid metric for judging language features. Seriously. Not a little bit stupid. What would Python look like if every new feature had to be possible to grep out?
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