On Fri, 12 Sep 2003, kjetil brinchmann halvorsen wrote:
> On 12 Sep 2003 at 15:53, len vir wrote:
>
> > Why is there no 'multiple-line comment code' in R,
>
> �Because the developers use ess and so see no need?
Mainly because S does not, and S preceded ESS and it's progenitor S-mode.
You'll find the comments in S/R are often one line and rarely more
than three. If you want to annotate code, use a system like Sweave or
noweb.
> Kjetil Halvorsen
>
> > like
> > /*
> > in C++
> > or in
> > GAUSS
> > */
> >
> > for example ?
AFAIK C++ prefers // (and /* */ is a hangover from C), and many other
languages (e.g. Fortran, Perl) have no multi-line comment device.
Many editors will allow commenting a selected block of lines, and you can
also use
if(FALSE) {
}
to comment out parts of your code.
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