On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 12:43:55PM -0700, Marc Perkel
wrote:> Suggestion for comments. Why not support this syntax for comments as
> well as #
>
> /*
> comments
> comments
> */
>
> It will allow for neater looking config files.
It's not a programming language, it's a config file. Standard
comment syntax is '#' (or ';' in the case of bind, which is an
odd-ball).
Given these 2 examples:
/*
foo
bar
baz
*/
or
# foo
# bar
# baz
I personally feel that the latter is more clearly read and
understood. It also makes it much simpler to parse from a
shell or perl or whatever.
John
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