Roy Smith wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, D H <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Elliot Temple wrote: >> >>>Hi I have two questions. Could someone explain to me why Python is >>>case sensitive? I find that annoying. >> >>I do too. As you've found, the only reason is because it is, and it is >>too late to change (it was even too late back in 1999 when it was >>considered by Guido). I guess the most popular case-insensitive >>language nowadays is visual basic (and VB.NET). >> >> > Also, why aren't there >> >>>multiline comments? Would adding them cause a problem of some sort? >> >>Again, just because there aren't and never were. There is no technical >>reason (like for example a parsing conflict) why they wouldn't work in >>python. That's why most python editors have added a comment section >>command that prepends # to consecutive lines for you. > > > If it really bothers you that there's no multi-line comments, you could > always use triple-quoted strings.
Where did I say that? > I actually don't like multi-line comments. They're really just syntactic > sugar, and when abused, they can make code very difficult to understand. > Just wait until the day you're trying to figure out why some C++ function > is behaving the way it is and you don't notice that a 50-line stretch of > code is commented out with /* at the top and */ at the bottom. Same with triple quotes, btw. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list