On 12/16/25 20:54, rbowman wrote:
On Tue, 16 Dec 2025 21:45:42 -0000 (UTC), Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
On Mon, 15 Dec 2025 12:57:57 +0000, mm0fmf wrote:
On 14 Dec 2025 11:56:42 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER wrote:
My issues with python are:
- It's using indentations, so when I comment a block of code to see
''' and ''' are your friend
Unless the block has triply-quoted strings inside it ...
Yeah, well. I've been burned more than once by someone who added
/* stupid comment */
someplace west of the 80th column in the code.
Well ...... reflex ........ :-)
Now most of my code lines have a "# WhatThisIs"
comment at the end. I like to micro-document so
I can remember what my own fuckin' code does
a few years down the line. AMAZING how quickly
the 'why' vanishes from the mind :-)
Probably 50% of the text in my code - doesn't
matter which lang - is 'comments'.
ANYway ... you CAN easily do block commenting
in Python ... P3 anyway, not so sure about P2
because I never used it.
IF there's a P4 ... they really SHOULD accept "/*"
as a start-comment.
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