RE: draft minutes from the sming interim:

Andy Bierman <[email protected]> Thu, 27 Jun 2002 15:25:58 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.sming
Message-ID <[email protected]>
At 02:58 PM 6/27/2002, David T. Perkins wrote:
>HI,
>
>On the question of comments, I believe the ASN.1 style is horrible
>and should be changed.

I like the proposal made by Juergen, which (I think) modifies
the comment to be " -- [<text>] <eoln> ".  


>Also needed are directives to compilers, such as that performed
>by #if/#ifdef to comment out sections of code. Likewise, directives
>to help tell the compilers about checking.

I don't think the standard needs to explicitly support directives.
These could be embedded in comments (like HTML). Conditional MIB
constructs would make MIBs hard to read, just like it makes C code
hard to read. Once you add #if/ifdef you need #define and #undef
to make them useful.  


>Regards,
>/david t. perkins

Andy