[nclpy-group] Feedback on new feature...
Rick Brownrigg
brownrig at ucar.edu
Wed Jul 1 09:28:57 MDT 2015
Greetings everyone,
Thanks to Mary for the welcoming introductory note. We do have a minor
feature in the works for NCL as a language, but one which I think many will
find convenient: block-comments, whereby one can readily comment out
multiple lines at once.
The question to the group is: what should that look like?
As a C/C++/Java programmer, my natural inclination would be /* ... */
style bracketing comments. However, I personally think that notation looks
out of place in NCL code. Given NCL's Fortran influences, we could turn to
that language -- I'm surprised however that modern Fortran does not have a
block-comment (?)
With ";" being NCL's line-comment character, one suggestion that has stuck
is
/; ... ;/ bracketing notation.
To those of you who might not be C/C++/Java programmers, is there another
more natural style appropriate for a language like NCL?
We appreciate any comments...
Rick
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