Joel de Guzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Paul A Bristow wrote:
>
>> Another feature that caused me some grief is that you can't simply
>> have ]s in comments - that ends the comment. It does what it says on
>> the can, but you can't quickly comment out lines as you can with C++
>> //
>
> Fixed. Now you can nest comments and blocks inside comments
I'm afraid you can't, because the parsing is too simplistic:
qbk semantics
------------------- ---------
[^foo *bar 5]*] <tt>foo <bold>bar 5]</bold></tt>
[/[^foo *bar 5]*]] ]
^
+--- closes the comment
IMO if we want to be able to reliably comment out regions, we either
need to actually parse the interior of the comment just as though it
was regular QBK (in which case you can't comment out
syntactically-invalid stuff) or we need a region terminator that's
reasonably distinctive. IOW, ']' doesn't cut it.
This is making me appreciate ReStructuredText more and more: There
comments end by restoring the indentation level
.. this is a comment
and this is some more comment
so is this.
comment has ended.
Indentation is a nice way to delimit large blocks in ways that make it
relatively unimportant what happens within the block.
--
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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