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pram
Jun 10, 2001
whats the best comment suymbol? please vote in the forthcoming poll

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Gazpacho
Jun 18, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
Slippery Tilde
no semicolon, screw you

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

YOU ARE A BRAIN
IN A BUNKER

the worst is % , fu matlab

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

It's 🖕

Asymmetric POSTer
Aug 17, 2005

CLASS 2 PERVERSION
Jan 19, 2010
Worst is <!--

OldAlias
Nov 2, 2013

hash

carry on then
Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

(and can't post for 10 years!)

hmm, trying to decide between )CM and @REM

both of those are real btw

Doom Mathematic
Sep 2, 2008
Isn't """ just a multiline string?

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

//

champagne posting
Apr 5, 2006

YOU ARE A BRAIN
IN A BUNKER


to what language does it belong? I mean obviously the least commented one but which

CLASS 2 PERVERSION
Jan 19, 2010

Boiled Water posted:

to what language does it belong? I mean obviously the least commented one but which

uh well really it's just hard to type

wide stance
Jan 28, 2011

If there's more than one way to do a job, and one of those ways will result in disaster, then he will do it that way.
/// that metamorphosizes into block comments.

BONGHITZ
Jan 1, 1970

<!-- is html comments

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

any as long as they aren't those multiline style ones

hifi
Jul 25, 2012

probably # top and // second

PyPy
Sep 13, 2004

by vyelkin
lol, as if I bother to comment

skimothy milkerson
Nov 19, 2006

"""gas thread
ban op
"""

The Management
Jan 2, 2010

sup, bitch?
#if 0

skimothy milkerson
Nov 19, 2006

Gazpacho posted:

no semicolon, screw you

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

I do my best to write my code in a clear enough manner as to not need a bunch of comments.


I occasionally need one tho.

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

But if u can't understand what my ephemeralAbstractDooDadFactory does than lol

Centrist Dad
Nov 13, 2007

When I see your posting
College Slice
8==========================================================================================================D ~ ~ ~

PyPy
Sep 13, 2004

by vyelkin
Comment above, or to the right? Personally, I hate everything.

Agile Vector
May 21, 2007

scrum bored



PyPy posted:

Comment above, or to the right? Personally, I hate everything.

below, as the dark lord insists

Bloody
Mar 3, 2013

above if you must comment

pram
Jun 10, 2001
above. literally never seen a below comment

BONGHITZ
Jan 1, 1970

comment in the space to the left

Suspicious
Apr 30, 2005
You know he's the villain, because he's got shifty eyes.
whatever VRML uses is best

yes, i was too lazy to look it up

~Coxy
Dec 9, 2003

R.I.P. Inter-OS Sass - b.2000AD d.2003AD

Gazpacho posted:

no semicolon, screw you

a .ini file parsing "framework" I use expects ; to delimit key/value pairs :argh:

big scary monsters
Sep 2, 2011

-~Skullwave~-

ACTUALLY, REM is the comment symbol, you only need the @ to prevent the comment being printed to screen (if echo is on)

carry on then
Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

(and can't post for 10 years!)

big scary monsters posted:

ACTUALLY, REM is the comment symbol, you only need the @ to prevent the comment being printed to screen (if echo is on)

oh ok, then )CM is my pick

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

big scary monsters posted:

ACTUALLY, REM is the comment symbol, you only need the @ to prevent the comment being printed to screen (if echo is on)

REMs don't print you idiot hell fucker, it's @echo off so you don't see the echo off command being printed

CRIP EATIN BREAD
Jun 24, 2002

Hey stop worrying bout my acting bitch, and worry about your WACK ass music. In the mean time... Eat a hot bowl of Dicks! Ice T



Soiled Meat
i just echo "the comment" > /dev/null so in certain situations i can hijack the echo function in the shell to get a log of whats going on

Captain Foo
May 11, 2004

we vibin'
we slidin'
we breathin'
we dyin'

CRIP EATIN BREAD posted:

i just echo "the comment" > /dev/null so in certain situations i can hijack the echo function in the shell to get a log of whats going on

this is pretty pro

Symbolic Butt
Mar 22, 2009

(_!_)
Buglord
""" on python is not really commenting, it's annoying sometimes because it tries to parse what you write into a valid string literal.

Python code:
""" 
this will give a syntax error \x 
"""

graph
Nov 22, 2006

aaag peanuts

hifi posted:

probably # top and // second

yeah

carry on then
Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

(and can't post for 10 years!)

okay i changed my mind again, it's actually APL with ⍝

ultravoices
May 10, 2004

You are about to embark on a great journey. Are you ready, my friend?

carry on then posted:

okay i changed my mind again, it's actually APL with ⍝

⍝ this penis is weird

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PIZZA.BAT
Nov 12, 2016


:cheers:


it's (: op

:)

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