On Wed, 16 May 2012 09:28:05 -0500, McKown, John <[email protected]> wrote: ... > >2) Use of the hash mark (#) to indicate the beginning of a comment, which extends to the end of the line. Why? OK, a foible of mine. And it's because when my mind is in UNIX mode, this is how most UNIX programs do it. And so I keep typing in # instead of * in column 1 to start a comment. Most irritating of me <grin>. I realize this would be a biggy because # is valid in an identifier. So I don't really expect it to be possible. I tend to avoid @, $, and # in identifiers anyway (do to how they are used in UNIX). But I have embraced using _.
There are systems around which use $,# and @ extensively as the first character of system-wide identifiers. I'd suggest either ";" or "//". Anywhere on the line.
