MG’s arguments make sense to me. Remko
> On Oct 21, 2018, at 23:05, MG <mg...@arscreat.com> wrote: > > Yea, sure. But doesn't a new shorthand syntax always have that trait ?-) > And would that not mean that we can never, ever again introduce a shorthand > notation in Groovy for anything, unless it is syntactically based on an > existing/established shorthand notation (which in this case it kinda is, > since it looks like a Javadoc comment - with something extra. Aka Groovy ;-) > ) ? > > Learning a language always means learning its syntax. If you encounter > something unexpected, Google is your friend (Not a Google expert, but I > assume "/**@" should be good to find, since it contains no spaces). > Also in this case I think it would not make a lot of difference to the casual > user: He will most likely just assume it is some kind of Javadoc variety, if > he even notices the "@" at the end. > > Instead of outright blocking another proposal by Daniel, maybe we can instead > come up with a compromise that everyone can can agree on... ?-) > > Cheers, > mg > > >> On 21.10.2018 10:51, Guillaume Laforge wrote: >> Well, /** has been in use for more than 20 years, so we've had time to get >> used to it. >> /**@ is totally non-obvious. I've no idea what it would have been about >> without having read this thread. >> >>> On Sun, Oct 21, 2018 at 4:28 AM MG <mg...@arscreat.com> wrote: >>> I agree with Daniel, I think >>> /**@ >>> would be neither more nor less cryptic than >>> /** >>> which everyone is just used to from Java (and which seems to have no >>> memnonic / self-explanatory characteristics to me...). >>> >>> Cheers, >>> mg >>> >>> >>> On 21.10.2018 03:04, Daniel.Sun wrote: >>> > Hi Guillaume, >>> > >>> > Javadoc switch `/**` is cryptic too at the beginning, but now I >>> > believe few people like the following form ;-) >>> > >>> > /* >>> > * @Javadoc >>> > * some Javadoc here >>> > */ >>> > >>> > Cheers, >>> > Daniel.Sun >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > ----- >>> > Daniel Sun >>> > Apache Groovy committer >>> > Blog: http://blog.sunlan.me >>> > Twitter: @daniel_sun >>> > >>> > -- >>> > Sent from: http://groovy.329449.n5.nabble.com/Groovy-Dev-f372993.html >>> > >>> >> >> >> -- >> Guillaume Laforge >> Apache Groovy committer & PMC Vice-President >> Developer Advocate @ Google Cloud Platform >> >> Blog: http://glaforge.appspot.com/ >> Twitter: @glaforge >
