parsing comments in scripts

[Dar Scott]

On Dec 12, 2004, at 6:22 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> I see the point people are making, but I'd sure miss the current 
> behavior if it changed. The ability to comment out an entire handler 
> by commenting the first line has been in xtalk for 18 years. I have 
> become dependent on it.

As Alex pointed out, it is really only an illusion for Transcript.  It 
doesn't work.

As for Hypertalk, my copy of "Hypercard Script Language Guide: The 
HyperTalk Language" says "Statements always appear in handlers in a 
script.  Any part of a statement following HyperTalk's double-hyphen 
comment character (--) is ignored by HyperCard."  I read this as saying 
that the ability was not intended to be part of HyperCard.

I am curious if others use the technique of commenting out a handler by 
commenting out the first line.  Maybe there is a way to rescue this 
kind of thing in a clean way.

Dar

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