Mike Meyer wrote: > "Elliot Temple" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Also, why aren't there >>multiline comments? Would adding them cause a problem of some sort? > > Because no one every really asked for them. After all, there are two > formats for multi-line strings, which the interpreter will build and > then discard. There are tools that recognize multi-line strings after > function/method definitions and treat them as function documentation. > > Adding multiline comments probably wouldn't be a problem - you'd just > have to come up with an introductory character sequence that can't > occur in the language (not that that stopped C). But you'd have to get > someone to write the code, then someone with commit privs to decide it > was useful enough to commit. That seems to be a lot of work for very > little gain.
Don't we already have multi-line comments in the form of string literals? -- Paul McNett http://paulmcnett.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
