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Topic: standards, aren't.

something i'm thinking of just now... comments. how many types and styles are there? css, html, php, asp, c, vb, etc. why not standardise those? instead of having to remember 10 differant comment types(i know there's only a couple but this makes my point more dramatic) why not just have one standard one? something like <comment>blah</comment> or *comment* blah *comment*. thoughts?

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  • From: The Netherlands
  • Registered: 2006-03-01
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Re: standards, aren't.

isn't the /* */ comment used in most languages?

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  • From: Leuven, Belgium
  • Registered: 2005-06-14
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Re: standards, aren't.

/* */ or // is mostly used I guess. I indeed dislike the HTML style of commenting... I mean, what does <!-- --> mean? =/ SImply embracing it with /* */ would be far simpler smile

  • Registered: 2004-04-16
  • Posts: 199

Re: standards, aren't.

Well all browsers handle html based on tags... <!-- --> is a tag... /* */ or // are not....

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  • From: Leuven, Belgium
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Re: standards, aren't.

True.

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Re: standards, aren't.

If the comments were the same style then why should any of the programming language be in a different style?

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  • From: -8 GMT
  • Registered: 2004-05-04
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Re: standards, aren't.

but comments are comments. not to be rendered on a page or included in a process. i think it would have been a wee bit easier if they(comments) would have been standardised right from the get.

~James
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