(j3.2006) Block comments

[Bill Long]

Maybe because editors have built-in commands to ?auto-comment? a block of lines , so the need seems marginal.

Cheers,
Bill

On Jan 26, 2015, at 2:54 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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