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From: Frank Heckenbach
Subject: GNU Pascal Coding stuff
Date: 13 Jul 2001, 23:38:37

Russ Whitaker wrote:

> On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, Frank Heckenbach wrote:
> 
> > Marco van de Voort wrote:
> > 
> > > - You discourage the use of (*, because displaying "(" would be difficult on
> > > some terminals, but afaik { is also?
> > 
> > Nope. What we mean is: The (* *) comments (just like (. .) for array
> > indexing etc.) were introduced in the language because at that time
> > { }, [ ] etc. were difficult on some terminals.
> > 
> > Today, this isn't an issue anymore, therefore we use the "original"
> > (and shorter) forms { } and [ ].
> 
> Good idea. However, hope you don't remove support for (* *)

Of course not! That would be quite a break of all existing Pascal
standards and non-standards. These are merely guidelines, not plans
for modifications of the compiler.

> because
> during developement it's a handy way to comment out a block of code
>  - especially if the block contains { }

Yes -- though there's also {$if False} ... {$endif} (which we
actually recommend since it also can be nested etc.).

Frank

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