From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Maciej Stachowiak Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Adding srfi-30 comments. Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 15:28:49 -0700 Sender: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <20020903152849.B25148@noisehavoc.org> References: <87admz3b3f.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> <87wuq3c94w.fsf@zagadka.ping.de> <87lm6j0wlx.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> <3D7500AA.83885B2F@pacbell.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1031093563 27228 127.0.0.1 (3 Sep 2002 22:52:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2002 22:52:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Rob Browning , Marius Vollmer , guile-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17mMXJ-00074k-00 for ; Wed, 04 Sep 2002 00:52:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17mMYl-0006rJ-00; Tue, 03 Sep 2002 18:54:11 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17mMYX-0006jx-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Sep 2002 18:53:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17mMYU-0006fa-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Sep 2002 18:53:56 -0400 Original-Received: from h-64-105-169-114.snvacaid.covad.net ([64.105.169.114] helo=chaos.noisehavoc.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17mMYT-0006ag-00 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Sep 2002 18:53:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mjs by chaos.noisehavoc.org with local (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 17mMAD-000765-00; Tue, 03 Sep 2002 15:28:49 -0700 Original-To: Bruce Korb Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3D7500AA.83885B2F@pacbell.net>; from bkorb@pacbell.net on Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 11:34:18AM -0700 Errors-To: guile-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:1266 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:1266 On 03Sep2002 11:34AM (-0700), Bruce Korb wrote: > Rob Browning wrote: > > > - #| comments can be nested > > No, please. Nested comments in C were removed for good > reason. It's too confusing. Editors are very good at > commenting out blocks of text, no need to muddy syntax > with another flavor of parenthesis. > The fact that C does not support nested comments leads to the near-universal recommendation of using #if 0 ... #endif, which does nest, to comment large blocks of code. I don't think this reduces confusion at all. - Maciej _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel