Re: RFC: multiline comments

2000-08-05 Thread Edwin Wiles
Of all the variations that I've seen so far (I'm way behind on reading the list), the one I like the best is: qc{ multi line comment here } Second best, but still acceptable would be: #END multi line comment END The reason it's second best, is because qc{ canbeusedinline } as well as

[Fwd: Re: Sublist auto*]

2000-08-05 Thread Edwin Wiles
Original Message Subject: Re: Sublist auto* Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2000 14:39:33 -0400 From: Edwin Wiles [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Totally Disorganized To: Johan Vromans [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Johan Vromans wrote: I would plea for autosubscribing

Re: DRAFT RFC: Enhanced Pack/Unpack

2000-08-05 Thread Edwin Wiles
Glenn, et.al. I'm going to be combining a number of different comments in here. Glenn Linderman wrote: I was surprised by the read/write operations, but have no objection to them. New/get/set and the individual data member access functions are the critical pieces, as the I/O could be done to

Re: RFC: multiline comments

2000-08-02 Thread Edwin Wiles
John Porter wrote: Michael Mathews wrote: Using a two-character syntax to start and end a multiline comment seems to be a good way to satisfy both the desired similarity to "#" and the desired uniqueness to avoid collision with real single-line quotes. I would suggest a (# many lines