Comments in v7?

[snibgo]

As v7 has a slightly more formal scripting language, can I submit a mild request for comments? IM would ignore all characters between an open-comment and close-comment token. This could be useful during script development, to temporarily remove code, as well as allowing human-readable comments.

For the comment tokens, I suggest the usual C-language /* and */ .

Should comments be nestable? I suggest they should be, though I can see the argument against.

[glennrp]

As v7 has a slightly more formal scripting language, can I submit a mild request for comments? IM would ignore all characters between an open-comment and close-comment token. This could be useful during script development, to temporarily remove code, as well as allowing human-readable comments.

For the comment tokens, I suggest the usual C-language /* and */ .

Should comments be nestable? I suggest they should be, though I can see the argument against.

I like open-comment=#, close-comment=end-of-line as well.
I don't see a need for nested comments; they aren't allowed in C and could be error-prone. If you really need
to nest comments you could do something like this, if we accept both kinds of comments:

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    # Super-duper redeye reduction script
    begin
    do this
    do more
    #
    #  /* experimental */
    #  bad code
    #
    do more
    end