POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.beta-test : Nested comments : Re: Nested comments Server Time
29 Jul 2024 16:30:31 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Nested comments  
From: Thorsten Froehlich
Date: 18 Apr 2002 13:41:40
Message: <3cbf0554@news.povray.org>
In article <3cbee3b7$1@news.povray.org> , "Slime" <noo### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:

>> > /* comment /* comment continued */
>
>> And how could it then determine if you want a part to be commented out or
> not?
>> If you think about what you are suggesting carefully you will find that
> what
>> you are expecting is mind-reading :-)
>
> Under my assumption that POV-Ray does not support nested comments, which has
> been corrected, I would have expected it to behave like languages that
> *don't* support nested comments, and simply ignore the second /*, since once
> you're in a comment, the only thing that should be responded to is the
> closing */.

Ah, so you had not seen Christoph Hormann's response which already noted that
nested comments are support just not in the editor.  It is really hard to
figure out when you responded because of the wrong date in your posts.  All
your posts are over six days older...

    Thorsten


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