Bock comments, maybe?

syzygy

The EOL-comments with "//" are fine, but it would be great to also be able to comment out complete blocks of code, the way C does this, or in some similar manner. (Nested comments would be even better!)
Is there a chance this might be implemented?

Cheers,

syzygy

jstrout

Not likely. I find block comments a frequent source of confusion, unless you have good IDE support for them -- but with any decent IDE, it's easy enough to select a whole block of text and insert or remove line comments anyway.

PureFox48

A simple way to comment out a block of code without requiring editor support, is to enclose it in a while 0 ... end while block.

Since the while condition is always false, the code will be skipped.

An if 0 then ... end if block is another way to achieve the same effect.

shellrider

PureFox48 I once saw this done in a customer's codebase, please don't do this, it was a big hassle to clean up

syzygy

And that's not confusing...?

PureFox48

Well, if your editor doesn't have a 'block comment' feature, it's a lot easier than having to manually add // to every line in a large block and then having to remove them again when you've finished debugging that section of your code.

PureFox48

Well, it’s only intended as a temporary expedient and shouldn’t appear in a ‘release’ version at all.

FWIW I’d like to see a form of block comment in MiniScript too - maybe the C-style /* … */ - but they do have issues with nesting and it’s clear Joe doesn’t want to go there.