From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id UAA23599; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 20:55:24 +0200 (MET DST) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA23570 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 20:55:23 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from escargot.exelixis.com (shaker.exelixis.com [65.209.203.254]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h38ItJ900608 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 20:55:20 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from quasar.ipa.nw.ru (dhcp-172-29-16-184.exelixis.com [172.29.16.184]) by escargot.exelixis.com (8.8.8/8.8.8/GNAC-GW-2.1) with ESMTP id LAA04516; Tue, 8 Apr 2003 11:55:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3E931A8F.6050206@quasar.ipa.nw.ru> Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 11:53:03 -0700 From: "Alexander V. Voinov" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Daniel M. Albro" CC: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] single-line comment request References: <4.3.2.7.2.20030408091635.037a29b0@localhost> <4.3.2.7.2.20030408110617.0389bde8@localhost> <3E932611.8090006@humnet.ucla.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam: no; 0.00; voinov:01 quasar:01 caml-list:01 %%,:99 python:01 alexander:01 ipa:02 wrote:03 ugly:05 daniel:06 obvious:06 i'd:06 java:07 comment:08 request:89 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Hi All, Daniel M. Albro wrote: > > But ## is so *ugly*! It just doesn't look OCaml-ic, since # is > already the object-call operator. What other possibilities are there? > How about %, %%, --, ' ? If "--" isn't used it might be nice. I'd vote for "--" or "%%". The need for a one-line comment is obvious for me. It's also a matter for quicker adoption among those who is practically working with Python, C++, Java etc. Alexander ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners