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Warning: Comment Style Religious Feeling Follows.

gaynor@athos.rutgers.edu (Silver) says:

| I find the inability to nest comments (in langauges which provide delimited
| comments) very unfriendly.  Whoever came up with the bright idea that this is 
| a `feature'?  Probably some lazy language designer who wrote a baby compiler 
| test a new language, and found that it was slightly easier for him to 
| implement it without nesting, so he defined it thus.  A black day.  This has
| led to more bugs than I care to remember or imagine.  When was the last time
| this dead horse was kicked?  I think it's time to kick it again, given the 
| number of postings about comments causing errors.

Once a language designer has made the blunder of having bracketed comments in
the language, the pressure is on him to allow them to be nested. The solution
is simple: have only end-of-line comments. Voila!

"Any reasonable editor" will be able to block-comment as required. Every 
comment line will be marked, so the "damn! it was commented out!" errors will
go away (he said optimistically).

So what's the problem? 

Regards,    | "Every now and again, I can't resist them temptation to indulge
Kers.       | in an apparently-subjective war."