(Non) Nesting block comments

[Bill Baxter]

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Michiel
Helvensteijn<m.helvensteijn.remove at gmail.com> wrote:
> D has the old C style block comments that start with /* and end with the
> first possible */. But it also has nesting block comments, starting with /+
> and ending with the *matching* +/.
>
> The nesting block comments were a great idea, since they can be used
> to 'comment out' any block of code, even if other block comments are
> already present.
>
> I was wondering, though. C++ compatibility aside, is there an actual use
> case for the C style block comments anymore? Has anyone here written some
> code lately where they thought: "I really need a comment here containing /+
> or +/ without the matching delimiter! Thank <deity> for C style comments!"
>
> (Yes, this is bikeshed stuff, and I don't really care. I like programming
> language syntax discussions. Sometimes they are low barrier discussions.)
>
> --
> Michiel Helvensteijn
>
>

I tend to use /* */ for writing multi-line comments.  and /+ +/ for
temporarily zapping blocks of code.  I like having that distinction,
but I wouldn't fight very hard to preserve it if there was some good
reason to kill /**/.  But so far I don't think there is such a reason.

--bb