Didn't know Note (much more from stdlib is new to me ☹), but I will become a heavy user.
Most of my comments went unnoticed (!) because I did not like commenting each line. Ctrl+Shift+/, that it is. Thnx! R.E. Boss -----Original Message----- From: Programming <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Ric Sherlock Sent: woensdag 1 september 2021 08:52 To: Programming JForum <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Multiline comments WAS: break from loading a script with 'load' I like the proposed: NB.( Would it be closed with: ) Apart from more consistent "naming", what are the other benefits of multiline comments as a feature that currently aren't provided by {{)n or 0 : 0? Currently I use Note, a variation on 0 : 0 from the stdlib ( https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Standard_Library/stdlib#Note) as mentioned in the other thread by Chris Note '' this line is a comment so is this one ) There is shortcut support for this in the JQt editor (Toggle using Ctrl+Shift+/) The J extension for VSCode will also highlight these sections as comments (Alt+Shift+a to set as Note) On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 3:49 AM Henry Rich <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > The comment delimiter will always be NB. and comments will always run > to the end of the line. > > Multiline comments would be useful. So far we use 0 : 0 or {{)n to > get that effect. Having NB.( or the like to start a multiline comment > would be useful. We can keep this topic open. > > Henry Rich > > On 8/31/2021 11:41 AM, Hauke Rehr wrote: > > So this is open for silly ideas? > > Multiline comments ought to be nestable. > > Personally, I like the way lua does it. > > Both multiline strings and comments work like this: > > [[ > > an example string > > spanning two lines > > ]] > > [=[ > > … and > > another one > > ]=] > > [====[ > > as many = signs as you want, > > so [[nesting]] is done by increasing = count ]====] > > -- a single line comment > > --[[ > > an example comment > > spanning two lines > > ]] > > --[=[ > > … and > > another one > > ]=] > > --[====[ > > which may be --[[nested]] > > the same way; > > ]====] > > > > > > Maybe using {={ … }=} etc? > > It doesn’t need to be = but I like that way > > of making comments nestable. > > > > > > > > Am 31.08.21 um 17:28 schrieb Henry Rich: > >> I have wanted this often. If we could reach consensus on what the > >> best end-marker would be, I'll look into putting it in. > >> > >> Henry Rich > >> > >> On 8/31/2021 8:27 AM, 'Rudolf Sykora' via Programming wrote: > >>> Dear list, > >>> > >>> > >>> if I load a (longer) script, I sometimes want to ignore a part of it > >>> beyond a certain line. Is there a way to achieve that gracefully? (I > >>> sometimes just add something syntactically wrong to stop there, on an > >>> error). > >>> > >>> > >>> Thank you. > >>> Ruda > >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > >> > >> > > > > > -- > This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. > https://www.avg.com > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
