> But all of them are clear on how they work: they affect one line, or have a
> bracket style like /* */ and thus demark clearly what they affect. Even
> someone not fluent in the language in question will quickly grab what they
> mean.
There's nothing remotely fuzzy about how wip or halt comments
> > I'm sorry I don't follow your logic. Meaningless to the interpreter,
> > yes, meaningless to the IDE or to me, no. I "_can't_ profit from these
> > conveniences"? Why ever not?
>
> Exactly, the ? is meaningless to the language itself, it's only a comment
> sign - ...
> ... it has nothing to do
On 9 Mar, 14:05, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> But you _can't_ profit from these conveniences, at least not the ?
> character. It's just garbage put in there for some others to interpret,
> meaningless to the interpreter. So it _always_ boils down to
> editor-support.
I'm sorry I
> Yes, it has. It says "disregard the following characters until EOL".
> If you remove it, the following code will be interpreted as ...
> code (and not be disregarded).
and ! would say "disregard the following characters until End Of
Program". Is it really so different?
> > Well I'm not a big f
On Mar 9, 10:59 am, "BJörn Lindqvist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 9 Mar 2007 02:31:14 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Thanks for the thoughts.
>
> > > This could be implemented without new syntax: just make your editor
> > > recognize some special comments, a
>Those characters have no syntactical meaning...
?
Neither does # until you give it syntactical meaning. I must be
missing what you mean.
> would, IMHO, make the language "dirty".
Well I'm not a big fan of decorators so I know how you must feel. But
# FIXME + a hack doesn't seem clean to me. And
Thanks for the thoughts.
> This could be implemented without new syntax: just make your editor
> recognize some special comments, and apply the highlighting to the
> following block. By example,
>
> # XXX Remove this when FuruFaifa is fixed to always provide
> #
Had a thought that's grown on me. No idea if it's original or not- too
inexperienced in programming- but I guess there's no harm floating it
out there.
Python wins big on readability, and there's no doubt that context-
dependent text formatting in IDEs (keywords, strings, comments etc) is
a massiv
