I've found that comment-pairs /* and */ can not be applied recursively in the
editor.
When the scene is rendered there is no problem. commented bloCks  are handled
correctly by the compiler/renderer.

Bug or feature?

I'm using Windows XP with POV-ray v3.6.0.icl8.win32

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Maurice

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SomeOne <ask### [at] yahoocouknospam> wrote:
> Bug or feature?

  A deficiency in the text editor, which is not developed by the pov-team.

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I also noticed that. It's good that you can nest comments in that way although
the editor color-codes them incorrectly.

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> I've found that comment-pairs /* and */ can not be applied recursively in the
> editor.
> When the scene is rendered there is no problem. commented bloCks  are handled
> correctly by the compiler/renderer.
>
> Bug or feature?
>
> I'm using Windows XP with POV-ray v3.6.0.icl8.win32
>
> --
> Maurice
>
>

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This is a bug in the editor -- with usable side-effects:

/*
These
lines
are
a
comment
// */

//*
But
not
these
lines
// */

I.e. adding/removing a single slash can switch off/on
a large block of code (a nice trick published some
time ago on one of these newsgroups; dont't know
anymore by whom).

A two-level nesting of comments is possible by
using both types of comments; this works:

/*
comment
// comment
comment
*/

// comment
// /* comment
// comment
// comment */
// comment

Prefixing many lines by "//" is easy in the windows
version: click on the beginning of the first line to
become a comment, then shift-alt-click on the
beginning of the last line to become a comment.
This gives a long vertical cursor. Then type "//"
(without the apostrophes) -- that's all.
Or get this long vertical cursor by alt-dragging
from the beginning of the first to the last line.

And of course "//"-comments can be nested
without limitation:

// comment
// comment // comment
// // comment
//// comment
// comment

   Sputnik

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> This is a bug in the editor

  No, it isn't.

  A bug is a programming mistake: The programmer wanted to achieve some
effect, but he made a programming mistake and the code doesn't work.

  This is clearly not a bug: It works exactly as the programmer wanted
it to work. It's just that the programmer didn't expect that some
language would use nested /* */ comments and didn't make any code
to handle that.

  It's just a deficiency, not a bug.

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