Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
Mark Morgan Lloyd schrieb:

Actually I meant

a=1;
(*< First line of a long block           *)
(*  of comments arranged "Sloane-style". *)

How would you then separate comments pertaining to the following item?

By the fact that there's a declaration between them. Anybody who isn't consistent in his commenting or coding style deserves all the trouble he gets, and in general anybody maintaining a unit should try to conform to the originator's style.

Having said that I stress that I'm not holding up my own style as a paragon of excellence, and I haven't a clue how many other people use something similar. Which I why I wrote

>> Is there a Lazarus Style Guide somewhere, that deals with how best to
>> format code so that the IDE can exploit it, that deals with using
>> fpdoc or something similar for ones own projects, and that possibly
>> even deals with writing help files (of some suitable format)?

and have never dreamed of saying that the Lazarus developers should cater to my quirks and eccentricities.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

[Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]

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