clipka <ano### [at] anonymousorg> wrote:

> Since we want to get rid of that 3rd party component anyway, I don't
> think we will do anything about this issue (except possibly re-define
> the POV-Ray SDL itself, as I suspect the nested block comments may be an
> issue with other syntax-highlighting editors as well).

I like that idea, and would find it useful to have several methods of
"commenting" text - much like there is (, [, and { to bracket/parenthesize
expressions in math.

Then these could be nested without interference.
It would also give a scene author the ability to _highlight_ certain parts of
their comments.

With regard to nesting, and rewriting SDL, I do understand the desire/necessity
to maintain backwards compatibility, however #end is used to close so many
different directives, that it can seriously hamper debugging.

#endif
#next
#endswitch

or other directives to close an open directive block might be useful, and if
it's possible to recognize one of those command OR an old-syntax #end, then
backward compatibility would be maintained.

Either that, or the ability to have command aliases such as
#alias "#endif" = "#end";

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