Add new comment strings

[stephane fonteyne]

hey,

Current have we the comment with the string apostrof ' but I think
a second manner is like C++ //

greets
Stephane

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[Borje Hagsten]

Why? Twice as much work to write //. Main reason why I use Basic
and not C - I'm lazy..


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[Troy King]

Far more useful than a single-line comment character would be
block characters like /* ... */.

But, text editors like UltraEdit handle multiple lines of single-
line comment characters very well and with a minimum of keystrokes,
so it doesn't really matter to me either way. I especially like
the way Visual Slickedit handles it... you highlight a block and
pick "comment block" and it puts language-appropriate commenting
about it, whether block or single-line.

So why bother with more comment characters? Not to get all evangelical,
but I see nearly no room for improvement in PB, except to possibly
extend some of the features in that wonderful runtime. And frankly,
I'd rather continue to code those myself than make the runtime much
larger. PB ain't VB, and I hope it doesn't turn into it, language-
wise.




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Troy King
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[Michael Mattias]

Look at the good side: you're not writing in (current) COBOL.

There a comment line is defined ONLY as "a line with an asterisk in column 7."

(The new COBOL standard supports "floating" comments; some COBOL vendors alerady support this).

MCM