[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> But # is 'only a comment sign' as well, and equally meaningless to
> the interpreter.
No! "#" means "disregard everything until EOL" to the interpreter.
Your proposed highlighting character means exactly nothing to the
interpreter. Get the difference?
> But it's still part of the language, very very
> useful and I profit from its existence every day.
See above, comment tokens do have syntactical meaning.
> If you can highlight an entire block with a single character,
> won't there be _less_ visual clutter than the current way of
> achieving the same effect with # comments?
You can't "highlight" something with comments. It will become a
comment and not be executed.
Some editors may display comments in a different manner, yes. But
that's not what comments are for -- the different display is just
for convenience.
>> So - if you want that feature, patch your editor of choice to
>> deal with that comments, make them added and removed with a key
>> stroke, whatever - be my guest.
>
> Would if I could!
Why don't you grab a good editor ...
> What we're talking about here is a form of 'alternate commenting
> style'. With the IDE's cooperation it'd work on whole blocks at
> once,
I know editors that can select blockwise without any special
characters in the source, just by keystrokes ...
> it would highlight without disrupting the code concerned (at
> least the way I'm envisaging it), it would be versatile (could
> probably be used for as big a variety of purposes as the #
> comment),
Any kind of highlighting is absolutely different from comments.
> and yes, it'd be persistent, which is how it would be
> different from any IDE-based highlighting.
(Why shouldn't other ways of highlighting be persistent? Metadata
exists.)
> I think that'd be most useful. You don't. So far nobody else here
> does either, and I've not persuaded anybody differently. Fair
> enough!
Agreed.
Regards,
Björn
P.S.: More and more I'm getting the impression that everybody should
first learn to program with a most simple editor. The typical
Java+Eclipse start is wrong, IMHO ...
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