Darren New wrote:
> Halbert wrote:
>> When I think about it, I wonder how one would intentionaly preserve 
>> their comments in a compiled binary. 
> 
> I'm wondering if whoever invented this idea might have been thinking of 
> things like in the .NET compiled objects where it might be storing 
> java-doc-like descriptions of the interface routines in the binaries. 
> Technically, comments from the source, but not really what a programmer 
> would think of as "comments from the source."  That, module attributes 
> (for run-time reflection, whatever they're called in .NET), debugging 
> symbols, etc?
> 

More than likely debugging symbols, and they just didn't understand what 
those are.

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