multi-line comments in assembly editor

[open finch]

multi-line comments in assembly editor

[median acorn]

What is the problem with multiple single line comments? Multi line comments are pretty much always a bad idea

[open finch]

just giving ideas

[brave mango]

Why are they bad? If I need to type paragraphs I don't want to have to fiddle with comment marks on each line. IDEs can automate that, but I think that might be out of scope for this game.

[open finch]

^

[median acorn]

They are really hard to parse and make consitent, especially if string literals exist

Especially if they are also somewhat supposed to be used to commenting out code

So /* "*/" */ would not do what one might expect when trying to commenting out the block of code

Also, adding a single # at the start of each line isn't that much effort

And yes, I would prefer the in game IDE to be updated with some kind of comment out this line. The IDE will almost certainly will have to be improved in a few ways when the assembler is updated

[open finch]

double ## can represent multi-line comment

[median acorn]

Sure, but exact syntax doesn't matter the problem still exist

[open finch]

okay

[vernal quail]

I agree that multiline likely isn't necessary, but it's easy enough to avoid the one example provided - just require the ml start indicator to be the first thing on a line

So you can make block comments but not embedded ones

[reef jacinth]

Some languages only have block comments and don't support line comments

Never heard of an assembler like that though

[median acorn]

That doesn't work with multiline strings like the TC assembler currently supports