Manuel Ortega wrote:
> > Manuel Ortega wrote:
> >
> > > I very much hope that one thing will be changed. Currently '#' only
> > starts
> > > a comment when it's followed by a space, if I understand correctly.
> > Please
> > > make it instead behave like almost every other language that uses '#' as
> > a
> > > comment character, and *don't* require that it be followed by a space.
> > >
> > > The choice of '"' as the comment character in vimscript of course proved
> > a
> > > bit awkward, but forcing it to be '#<space>' rather than '#' is even
> > worse
> > > IMO.
> > >
> > > I note that if you look in the dictionary of comment characters found
> > > inside the popular NerdCommenter plugin, there are exactly ZERO entries
> > for
> > > which '#<space>' is mandatory. There are five entries that indicate a
> > > style preference for '#<space>' but allow '#'. And there are 134 entries
> > > for which '#', with no following space, is a comment character. (For 125
> > > of these 134, that's the primary or sole comment character).
> > >
> > > If one of the goals of vim9script is to be more like what a user
> > expects,
> > > then '#' and not '#<space>' should be the comment-starter.
> >
> > Where do you read that there must be a space after the #?
>
>
> Ah, it seems I misremembered the details. But my point remains pretty much
> the same. I'd said it was unexpected for the comment char of vim9script to
> be '#<space>'; it's at least as unexpected for it to be '<space>#', and
> even more unexpected for it to be "'<space>#', unless it's the start of the
> line". That makes things worse than the old way, not better.
>
> Otherwise it could be confused with an autoload script item.
>
>
> Then the right thing to do would be to change the autoload syntax to not
> use '#'. The main point of vim9script is to break backwards compatibility
> to "fix" stuff, right? I would say having a normal and sensible
> comment-char, after all these years of an awkward one, it more important
> than keeping the autoload syntax the same.
>
> And it definitely doesn't behave more like other langs (which seems to be
> one of vim9's goals). '#' in bash, ruby, etc. don't require a space
> beforehand. There are ZERO entries in the aforementioned NerdCommenter
> dictionary for '<space>#'.
Although the shell accepts "anything#comment", I have seen many style
guides that do require a space before the "#". And some companies
require it (presubmit check).
I can't think of an alternative for "#" that would work better.
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