Speaking of comments

[Richard O'Keefe]

On 9/12/2010, at 4:15 AM, Edmond Begumisa wrote:

> I've thought -- now and then, in the back of my mind -- about removing comments from actual source all-together (for all languages) and instead, putting them in companion files that the editor lines up side-by-side. More like annotating than just traditional commenting.
> 
> Has this sort of thing been done before? Is there a particular editor that can give me this out of the box? (I admittedly haven't explored a large number of editors)

http://www.xemacs.org/Documentation/beta/html/lispref_52.html

I believe Eclipse and NetBeans also have some kind of annotation support.
For XML documents, Amaya supports the Annotea protocol.
> 
> It seems a shame that in 2010, it's still so limiting what we can do with comments in our source code!

_We_, kimosabe?

My strictures against nesting comments do NOT apply to annotated annotations.