(j3.2006) Block comments

[Keith Bierman]

To the extent that my memory is working, I vaguely recall a brief
discussion back in the day. I think there was some sentiment that it was
more problem that benefit, as mismatched block comments caused enough grief
for us in other language(s) that we didn't want to replicate that
misfeature.

Obviously, there's a strong counter opinion, as many languages do have
them. But all it took as a failure to get critical mass to die.

Keith Bierman
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On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 1:54 PM, Lionel, Steve <steve.lionel at intel.com>
wrote:

> A customer has asked me why Fortran doesn?t have block comments. I took a
> look through the archives and found a 1994 proposal from Canada in N970
> that appeared to have not gone any further. (It was intriguing to see the
> proposed syntax of ?(! ? !)?, which had never occurred to me.) Had this
> feature not come up again in 20 years? Is there some history here I could
> learn about?
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> Steve Lionel
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