The problem is that both #/* and #/* are valid binary operators, so
they don't work well for comments.

I don't really remember what I proposed a few years ago, although I
remember that exactly the same proposal was made. What would work is
to use something like "* and *" (or any other double thing that starts
with a double quote). Like this the comments could contain double
quotes.

As a short term solution you can also put your comments into single
quotes. Unused string literals are removed by the compiler.

Lukas

On 31 October 2011 22:00, Stéphane Ducasse <[email protected]> wrote:
> Me too.
>
> Sean lukas proposed a syntax for that in the mailing-list a year ago.
> If you find it please resent it.
>
> Stef
>
> On Oct 31, 2011, at 9:12 PM, Sean P. DeNigris wrote:
>
>> Would it be difficult/valuable to create an alternate comment syntax? I often
>> find myself wanting to comment a large block itself containing comments. It
>> would be nice to have something like C++'s /* */. I feel like this may have
>> been brought up before, but couldn't find it searching the lists.
>>
>> Sean
>>
>> --
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>> http://forum.world.st/Comment-Syntax-tp3961451p3961451.html
>> Sent from the Pharo Smalltalk mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>>
>
>
>



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