[nclpy-group] Feedback on new feature...

[David Brown]

On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 3:13 PM, Alan Brammer <abrammer at albany.edu> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> My vote would have to be on the /;    ;/  notation for consistency with
> existing comments.
>
> This would also hopefully mean you can leave the trailing ;/ when you
> uncomment a block. I know I would end up with a ton of trailing */ which
> would then trip errors otherwise.
>
That's an interesting observation, and in my mind adds points in favor
of the /; ;/ syntax.
 -dave

>
> Alan.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 2:42 PM, Karin Meier-Fleischer
> <meier-fleischer at dkrz.de> wrote:
>>
>> Hi to all,
>>
>> thanks to Mary for the welcome note, too. :-)
>>
>> I would prefer /* .. */ as used for C/C++.
>>
>> The /; .. ;/ looks a little bit strange and in my opinion the /* .. */ is
>> much better to identify in scripts.
>> But that’s just my view.
>>
>> Bye,
>> Karin
>>
>>
>>
>> Am 01.07.2015 um 17:28 schrieb Rick Brownrigg <brownrig at ucar.edu>:
>>
>> 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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