[erlang-questions] Multi-line comments in Erlang

[James Churchman]

oh ok, i get what you mean. Well it can not be done with a Parse Transform (something i have played with a lot) unless the syntax you use is still valid erlang, as it wont initially parse. i imagine that the erlang parser itself could be very easily modified with only a few lines & writing your own pre-parser thing would be even easier ( <5 LOC ? ) . Im sure this must have been mentioned a million times b4 & i guess it's left out as erlang is deliberately small & lean, any editor can handle doing multiple lines in one go & using ifdef(macro) or ifndef(macro) are a better way to deactivate code if thats what your looking for. maybe things like this inspired the language to stay lean. python : http://www.flickr.com/photos/nicksieger/281055485/ java : http://www.flickr.com/photos/nicksieger/280662707/in/photostream/ :-)



On 7 Dec 2010, at 18:20, Rapsey wrote:

> Is it that important? Any proper programming editor can comment/uncomment
> multiple lines.
> 
> 
> Sergej
> 
> On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Zvi . <zvi.avraham@REDACTED> wrote:
> 
>> Why do you think it's not possible?
>> It's just simple change to Erlang source code parser.
>> Probably this should be submitted as EEP, so OTP team will consider it.
>> 
>> On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 6:25 PM, James Churchman <jameschurchman@REDACTED
>>> wrote:
>> 
>>> not posible in erlang, but many editors (eg i use textmate) will comment
>>> and uncomment multiple lines with % on each line..
>>> On 7 Dec 2010, at 15:32, Zvi wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> Matlab/Octave has single line comments, like Erlang (i.e. starting
>>>> with '%' sign). But it also have multi-line comments, like for
>>>> example:
>>>> 
>>>> %{
>>>> this is example
>>>> of multi-line
>>>> comments in Matlab
>>>> %}
>>>> 
>>>> which is equivalent to:
>>>> 
>>>> %this is example
>>>> %of multi-line
>>>> %comments in Matlab
>>>> 
>>>> How difficult is to add comments like this to Erlang?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Zvi
>>>> 
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