13 Jul
2001
13 Jul
'01
9:33 p.m.
On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Frank Heckenbach wrote:
Marco van de Voort wrote:
- You discourage the use of (*, because displaying "(" would be difficult on
some terminals, but afaik { is also?
Nope. What we mean is: The (* *) comments (just like (. .) for array indexing etc.) were introduced in the language because at that time { }, [ ] etc. were difficult on some terminals.
Today, this isn't an issue anymore, therefore we use the "original" (and shorter) forms { } and [ ].
Good idea. However, hope you don't remove support for (* *) because during developement it's a handy way to comment out a block of code - especially if the block contains { }
Russ