On Dec 12, 2004, at 6:22 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
I see the point people are making, but I'd sure miss the current behavior if it changed. The ability to comment out an entire handler by commenting the first line has been in xtalk for 18 years. I have become dependent on it.
As Alex pointed out, it is really only an illusion for Transcript. It doesn't work.
As for Hypertalk, my copy of "Hypercard Script Language Guide: The HyperTalk Language" says "Statements always appear in handlers in a script. Any part of a statement following HyperTalk's double-hyphen comment character (--) is ignored by HyperCard." I read this as saying that the ability was not intended to be part of HyperCard.
I am curious if others use the technique of commenting out a handler by commenting out the first line. Maybe there is a way to rescue this kind of thing in a clean way.
Dar
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