> If the prime argument for mlc is commenting out large blocks of code
> then you'd better solve the nesting problem -- and do it well.
vi substitution
:.,+20s/^/##obsoleted Aug 22, 2000 ## /
works really well for the large blocks of code problem, so do
$BOGUS::Comment=<<END_COMMENT
...
END_COMMENT
and its proposed regularizaion into the obviously parseable
#<<TOKEN
...
TOKEN
which would not throw bothersome warnings.
However, if we are going to (as I would like to) allow the inclusion
of unmodified C and C++ header files to be included into Perl6 to define
structures and parameter lists and return value declarations, we're going
to need to filter out not only /* these */ but //these as well.
Many languages have a profusion of commenting syntaces, clipper had many,
the configuration files for bind allow lots of different comment styles too.
I don't think anyone is suggesting that leading # be thrown out.
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