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Re: KA9Q: Comments in autoexec.net

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From: Malcolm Muir
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 1995 00:00
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Anthony R. Gold (tgold@microvst.demon.co.uk) wrote:
> In article <815947544snx@holly.demon.co.uk>
>            mcr@holly.demon.co.uk "Mark Rogers" writes:

> > Would be hard (or memory intensive) to extend this so that anything from 
> > the right of a hash was considered a comment? Eg:

> This is a script file of NET commands which is interpreted line by line,
> so the only cost would be of the smop and not of memory.

No, programming adds code to the code space which in turn impacts of
free memory. It may be possible to modify the code to work as
requested without increasing its size, but I won't commit to that
without a careful look.

> You can right now use a mixture of spaces, blank lines and commands to
> make thinks pretty readable.  Mine was commented only with a view to 
> reminding me what I am doing, so things could still be improved:

[deleted]

Indeed that is the way I document my own files.

-- 
Malcolm S. Muir
Sunderland
England
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From: malcolm@demon.net (Malcolm Muir)
Subject: Re: KA9Q: Comments in autoexec.net
Date: 1995/11/09
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