At the risk of flogging a dead horse, I'm wondering why Python doesn't have any multiline comments. One can abuse triple-quotes for that purpose, but that's obviously not what it's for and doesn't nest properly. ML has a very elegant system for nested comments with (* and *).
Using an editor to throw #s in front of every line has limitations. Your editor has to support it and you have to know how to use that feature. Not exactly intuitive or easy for novices to pick up. Also a pain if your preferred editor is python/perl/sh-agnostic. Saying coders shouldn't use multiline comments to disable code misses the point. Coders will comment out code regardless of the existence of multiline comemnts. There has to be a better argument for leaving them out. Keeping the language small and simple is desirable, but it's not an absolute. A little syntactic sugar like 'for x in s' makes code easier to read than 'for i in len(s): x = s[i]'. So what are the tradeoffs involved with nested multiline comments? I'd like to understand the reasoning behind keeping them out. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
