Forums Bug Reports /* In aliases?

Hey, I have used an /* alias for a long time now..
But with 6.1 it doesnt work, and all aliases below that point doesnt either work..
Should it be that way, or is it a bug?

P.S the alias is: /* /.msg x op $chan $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.

Damn that :P
I loved the /* , because it was really fast.. well well, then /- it is

Hey i never noticed that, that's a good feature!

I firmly believe that the addition of this commenting style is only going to cause more harm than good. I understand the intention of it, but it is unnecessary (and currently broken).

In a way I do agree with you. ; on each line looks much neater too.

You don't need to put slashes in aliases, so you can still keep your /* alias if you remove it:

Exactly and the new commenting system is great in concept and operation - there's nothing wrong with it!

What is broken about it?

Whats broken? And I'm quite sure you enjoy sitting there commenting out extremely long lines of code.

; is handy for short commenting trips, but /* and */ are very handy when you have a very large bracket of code you want to comment out.

And you don't have to use it if you don't like it.

Currently you cannot use /* and */ in the same line. Not that big of a deal, I guess, but still technically broken.

84.Can now use /* and */ to comment out multiple lines in an alias,
popup, or script. Each (Ed: probably "should") be used alone on a single line.

It isn't for single lines, use a semi-colon for those, so it isn't broken.

Well then mIRC doesn't work like any other language in existence, because /* */ CAN span multiple lines it doesn't have to. And I'm not just talking about in one language, I'm talking about in every language that uses /* */ comments.

Yes, but it's presumably much faster for mIRC to parse comments if it requires that the closing */ is at the start of a line. mIRC also requires that single-line comments start on a single line, even though in most languages you can start a comment anywhere (although the lack of quoted strings is also another reason for that).