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v6.31: Multi-line comment issue #188949 02/11/07 09:55 AM
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 503 Melbourne, Australia B Bekar OP Fjord artisan
OP Bekar Fjord artisan B Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 503 Melbourne, Australia	Code: /* blah blah blah blah / alias test { echo -s got here } In an edit window, do /test, you'll get an 'Unknown command' error. Ending a / */ comment anywhere other than the first character of a line seems to not end the multi-line comment correctly. Causes anything after the comment to break. I think this was there in v6.3 too.

Re: v6.31: Multi-line comment issue Bekar #188951 02/11/07 10:07 AM
Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 8,330 MA, USA Riamus2 Hoopy frood
Riamus2 Hoopy frood Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 8,330 MA, USA	Without checking, I don't think you could end the comment anywhere other than the beginning of a line for a long time (perhaps all of the time). Invision Support #Invision on irc.irchighway.net

Re: v6.31: Multi-line comment issue Riamus2 #188952 02/11/07 10:14 AM
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 503 Melbourne, Australia B Bekar OP Fjord artisan
OP Bekar Fjord artisan B Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 503 Melbourne, Australia	With the ';' stuff, yeah.. Semi-colon is documented in the help file as being required at the start of a line, but the '/* */' style is listed as 'enclose text'. Documentation change, sure, it'd be fine. Just the clarification would be nice

Re: v6.31: Multi-line comment issue Bekar #188954 02/11/07 10:17 AM
Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 8,330 MA, USA Riamus2 Hoopy frood
Riamus2 Hoopy frood Joined: Oct 2004 Posts: 8,330 MA, USA	I don't use that kind of commenting myself as it's much easier, imo, to see what is a comment when using ;'s on each line... still, I believe you can put */ at the end if it's the same line, otherwise it has to be at the beginning. It wouldn't hurt to have that in the help file, of course. Invision Support #Invision on irc.irchighway.net

Re: v6.31: Multi-line comment issue Bekar #188955 02/11/07 10:52 AM
Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 508 Storage D deegee Fjord artisan
deegee Fjord artisan D Joined: Jun 2006 Posts: 508 Storage	You always had to use them at the beginning of a line. Originally Posted By: versions.txt 29/08/2003 - mIRC v6.1 84.Can now use /* and / to comment out multiple lines in an alias, popup, or script. Each be used alone on a single line. There's some text missing, but the help file shows Originally Posted By: /help comments / This is a comment */ That's how they've always worked... Note that it also states multiple lines in versions.txt. Last edited by deegee; 02/11/07 10:54 AM.

Re: v6.31: Multi-line comment issue Bekar #188968 02/11/07 01:54 PM
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 2,962 Norwich, UK S starbucks_mafia Hoopy frood
starbucks_mafia Hoopy frood S Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 2,962 Norwich, UK	As far as I know it's by design. It's necessary really since mIRC doesn't use quotes around strings, otherwise you could end up with / appearing anywhere in what was supposed to be an argument to a command that gets treated as the end of the comment, leading to bugs. ie. Code: / echo -a / This is all meant to be text / echo -a this is meant to be commented out too */ Spelling mistakes, grammatical errors, and stupid comments are intentional.

Re: v6.31: Multi-line comment issue Bekar #188969 02/11/07 01:59 PM
Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 1,559 Germany H Horstl Hoopy frood
Horstl Hoopy frood H Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 1,559 Germany	Think about the popular "if ( /* !iswm $1 ) for on input events. Well, it's inside an if condition, but mirc would need to parse alot more code... edit: ...beaten Last edited by Horstl; 02/11/07 02:01 PM.

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