In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Jonathan Gardner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Warby wrote: > > ...and I forgot to mention that the output of grep and diff is far more > > understandable in the absence of block comments! > > Which is why people do this /anyway/. (Kind of makes block comments > pointless, doesn't it? > > /* This is a > * really > * really > * long > * block comment */ Habit left over from the C days. It was the only way of making a block comment stand out visually. C++ has // comments, just like Python has #, but old habits die hard. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
