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Glenn Linderman said: > The "#<<token" is big enough it won't be found by accident, but too big for > in-line comments. Agreed. > The #< or #* is small enough for in-line comments, but > could have been used in single line comment days, so it better not > accidentally comment out a large block of code (there may be a ># or *# > somewhere later, so you'd get no warning). Oh!! I see what you mean now but I am a little leery about having now 3 different ways of commenting. Also I don't see why anyone couldn't use the Linderman Style Comments as a block. It has the feature of distinct opening and closing delimiters and, and unlike qc's braces I can't think of any example where #* or *# would appear unquoted in regular code (no more likely than finding */ in Java or C++ code). Why not use it as a more general comment-with-explicit-opening-and-closing? Still there is the problem of what to do about single line comments that start with "#*", but I would suggest that any unmatched #* be treated as a single-line comment. Maybe give a warning under Strict.Thread Previous | Thread Next