• wolfgangamadeus <wolfgangamadeus_member pathlink.com> Jun 04 2004
• Charlie <Charlie_member pathlink.com> Jun 04 2004
• "Marc" <iam here.net> Jun 04 2004
• Ant <duitoolkit yahoo.ca> Jun 05 2004
• Dick Zantow <rzantow ntelos.net> Jun 06 2004
• Stewart Gordon <smjg_1998 yahoo.com> Jun 07 2004

wolfgangamadeus <wolfgangamadeus_member pathlink.com> writes:

I dislike the c style comments.  I know for compatability reasons 
that this might be impossible but shell script pound comments are better.
I prefer the pound comment to that hideous // /* */ trogolith from C.
I can't understand what Kernighan and Ritchie chose them for C because C style
comments in short, they are a disaster.  Even Perl uses pound comments.

You should be able to use a single character to denote a comment like the pound
sign in the Bourne Shell.  I think the pound sign is a vast improvement.

Instead of some C comment for:

/* This comment really sucks because it is to verbose to comment 

*/
// or even this is stupid because you have to enter two keys to comment your 
// line. plus the double dash is a really ugly kretin from hell 
// which I have no idea
// why it was chosen.

You can use a pound shell comment (as in Perl and Shell scripts) for:

#< This is a possible multiline comment 
#>
# This is so much better.  Shell scripts are for speed and simplicity
# C style comments suck in comparison and who wants to type twice to comment
# one lousy line.
# 

I think the pound comment is much better although it might be to politically
infeasible to swallow.

Charlie <Charlie_member pathlink.com> writes:

As much as I despise perl, I have to agree.  # currently has no meaning in D,
though we already have three comment markers, I would welcome this addition,
though I dont have much hope that it will be adopted.  Choose your battles :/.

I prefer the pound comment to that hideous // /* */ trogolith from C.


Trogolith ?  Fun word!  But i couldnt find a defintion ?

C


In article <c9rja9$31d4$1 digitaldaemon.com>, wolfgangamadeus says...
I dislike the c style comments.  I know for compatability reasons 
that this might be impossible but shell script pound comments are better.
I prefer the pound comment to that hideous // /* */ trogolith from C.
I can't understand what Kernighan and Ritchie chose them for C because C style
comments in short, they are a disaster.  Even Perl uses pound comments.

You should be able to use a single character to denote a comment like the pound
sign in the Bourne Shell.  I think the pound sign is a vast improvement.

Instead of some C comment for:

/* This comment really sucks because it is to verbose to comment 

*/
// or even this is stupid because you have to enter two keys to comment your 
// line. plus the double dash is a really ugly kretin from hell 
// which I have no idea
// why it was chosen.

You can use a pound shell comment (as in Perl and Shell scripts) for:

#< This is a possible multiline comment 
#>
# This is so much better.  Shell scripts are for speed and simplicity
# C style comments suck in comparison and who wants to type twice to comment
# one lousy line.
# 

I think the pound comment is much better although it might be to politically
infeasible to swallow.

"Marc" <iam here.net> writes:

I prefer the pound comment to that hideous // /* */ trogolith from C.




Searching Trogolith gaved nothing.
Trying with Trogolite brings a page with some synonyms.
One of them was 'Trogolyte"

Then , from this page:

    http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=troglodyte

"troglodyte"

<jargon> (Commodore) 1. A hacker who never leaves his cubicle.
The term "Gnoll" (from Dungeons & Dragons) is also reported.

2. A curmudgeon attached to an obsolescent computing
environment. The combination "ITS troglodyte" was flung
around some during the Usenet and e-mail wringle-wrangle
attending the 2.x.x revision of the Jargon File; at least
one of the people it was intended to describe adopted it with
pride.

May be...

Ant <duitoolkit yahoo.ca> writes:

On Sat, 05 Jun 2004 04:48:09 +0000, wolfgangamadeus wrote:

 I dislike the c style comments.


You are very lucky if this the worst think you can find in D :)

Ant

Dick Zantow <rzantow ntelos.net> writes:

wolfgangamadeus <wolfgangamadeus_member pathlink.com> wrote in
news:c9rja9$31d4$1 digitaldaemon.com: 

 I dislike the c style comments.  I know for compatability
 reasons that this might be impossible but shell script pound
 comments are better. I prefer the pound comment to that hideous
 // /* */ trogolith from C. I can't understand what Kernighan and
 Ritchie chose them for C because C style comments in short, they
 are a disaster.  Even Perl uses pound comments. 
 



value = somefunc( p1 /* required */, p2 /* may be null*/ );

How do you intersperse comments using a '#'?

Not that I ever comment anything, but still .... 

Stewart Gordon <smjg_1998 yahoo.com> writes:

wolfgangamadeus wrote:
<snip>
 You should be able to use a single character to denote a comment like
 the pound sign in the Bourne Shell.  I think the pound sign is a vast
 improvement.



But in a C-like language, someone's going to see a # and think
"preprocessor directive", even if they don't* exist in D.

Actually, one has been kept, namely #line.

 /* This comment really sucks because it is to verbose to comment 
 
 */


I think you mean "too verbose to" not "to verbose to".  AIH, the D 
compiler isn't as forgiving as many humans are....

 // or even this is stupid because you have to enter two keys to comment your 
 // line. plus the double dash is a really ugly kretin from hell 
 // which I have no idea
 // why it was chosen.


Because it doesn't conflict with any pre-existing C(++) syntax.

You can always use // for single line comments, and /* */ for multiline 
comments.  That way, you won't need to type more than 4 comment 
delimiter characters however long it is.  And most comments are somewhat 
longer than 4 characters!

Stewart.

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