<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi to all,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">thanks to Mary for the welcome note, too. :-)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I would prefer /* .. */ as used for C/C++. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The /; .. ;/ looks a little bit strange and in my opinion the /* .. */ is much better to identify in scripts.</div><div class="">But that’s just my view.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Bye,</div><div class="">Karin</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Am 01.07.2015 um 17:28 schrieb Rick Brownrigg <<a href="mailto:brownrig@ucar.edu" class="">brownrig@ucar.edu</a>>:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class="">Greetings everyone,<br class=""><br class=""></div>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.<br class=""><br class=""></div>The question to the group is: what should that look like?<br class=""><br class=""></div>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 (?)<br class=""><br class=""></div>With ";" being NCL's line-comment character, one suggestion that has stuck is <br class=""><br class=""></div> /; ... ;/ bracketing notation.<br class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">To those of you who might not be C/C++/Java programmers, is there another more natural style appropriate for a language like NCL?<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We appreciate any comments...<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Rick<br class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div apple-content-edited="true" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px;"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></span></div></div></div></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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