On 09/07/2010 01:39 AM, Tim Starling wrote: > I think it's ironic that this style arises in JavaScript, given that > it's a high-level language and relatively easy to understand, and that > you could make a technical case in favour of terseness. C has an > equally effective minification technique known as compilation, and its > practitioners tend to be terse to a fault. For instance, many Linux > kernel modules have no comments at all, except for the license header. >
I would quickly add that it would be best to promote JSDoc style comments ( as I have slowly been doing for mwEmbed ). This way eventually we could have ( Google Closure Compiler ) read these comments to better optimize JavaScript compilation: http://code.google.com/closure/compiler/docs/js-for-compiler.html Also we can create pretty JSDoc style documentation for people that are into that sort of thing. --michael _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
