Re: ZAP/[patch] Martin's cursor position POW

[John L. Clark]

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