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

[Maria Gehne - NOAA Affiliate]

Yes, the more forgiving to forgetfulness the better.

Maria

On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 4:42 PM, Dennis Shea <shea at ucar.edu> wrote:

> Je suis d'accord ... D
>
> On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 3:44 PM, David Brown <dbrown at ucar.edu> wrote:
>
>> 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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