<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Hi all,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">My vote would have to be on the /; ;/ notation for consistency with existing comments.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">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. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"> </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Alan. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 2:42 PM, Karin Meier-Fleischer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:meier-fleischer@dkrz.de" target="_blank">meier-fleischer@dkrz.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Hi to all,<div><br></div><div>thanks to Mary for the welcome note, too. :-)</div><div><br></div><div>I would prefer /* .. */ as used for C/C++. </div><div><br></div><div>The /; .. ;/ looks a little bit strange and in my opinion the /* .. */ is much better to identify in scripts.</div><div>But that’s just my view.</div><div><br></div><div>Bye,</div><div>Karin</div><div><div class="h5"><div><br></div><div><div><br></div><div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Am 01.07.2015 um 17:28 schrieb Rick Brownrigg <<a href="mailto:brownrig@ucar.edu" target="_blank">brownrig@ucar.edu</a>>:</div><br><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>Greetings everyone,<br><br></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><br></div>The question to the group is: what should that look like?<br><br></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><br></div>With ";" being NCL's line-comment character, one suggestion that has stuck is <br><br></div> /; ... ;/ bracketing notation.<br><div><div><div><br></div><div>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><br></div><div>We appreciate any comments...<br><br></div><div>Rick<br><br></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;word-wrap:break-word"><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;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;word-wrap:break-word"><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;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;word-wrap:break-word"><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;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;word-wrap:break-word"><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;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;word-wrap:break-word"><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><br></div></div></span></div></div></div></div></div><br><br>
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