Subject: Re: ZAP/[patch] Martin's cursor position POW
From: John L. Clark (jlc6@po.cwru.edu)
Date: Fri Jan 26 2001 - 08:06:46 CST
On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 08:09:12AM -0500, Thomas Fletcher wrote:
> The only thing that I don't like about using // for long
> block comments is that it is a pain to have to edit them
> since you always have to be doing formatting work. I'd
> rather that we use the
>
> /*!
> This is a long block
> comment of some sort ...
> blah blah blah
> */
>
Me too.
>
> Then again ... maybe I'm just being petty.
I don't think it's just petty. It seems to me that the /* */ style of
comment was designed for block length comments, and the // style of
comment was designed for line-oriented comments. And we still preserve
the forced whitespace, as Mike was concerned about.
Take care,
John
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