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.

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.
>
>

> >I prefer the pound comment to that hideous // /* */ trogolith from C.
> Trogolith ?  Fun word!  But i couldnt find a defintion ?

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...

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

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 ....

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.
<snip>

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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