Re: Multi-Line Comments

+1 Against multiline comments. Perl Python and Ruby don't have them.

I think in a serialization language like yaml they would be quite dangerous,
as you wouldn't know be looking at the middle of a stream, whether or not it
was a comment.

--Ingy

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 5:03 AM, Oren Ben-Kiki <[email protected]> wrote:

> The current YAML spec does not have this feature. The title of 6.11 is
> misleading; it refers to the fact that multiple comment lines maybe included
> in what is logically a single white space separator between tokens.
>
> YAML 1.2 is finalized. Adding a /* ... */ style comment may be in scope for
> 1.3 or 2.0. There are pros and cons for adding it, and it isn't clear what
> syntax to use. At any rate, we have no concrete plans for working on a new
> version - ideally now the effort should focus on updating the
> implementations to match the 1.2 spec.
>
> FWIW, JSON doesn't allow for any comments whatsoever :-)
>
> In the meanwhile, most editors make it pretty painless to add a '#'
> character at the start of a range of lines.
>
> Have fun,
>
>     Oren Ben-Kiki
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 3:35 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Example 6.11 at http://www.yaml.org/spec/1.2/spec.html is about
>> multi-line comments.   I don't understand how the right-hand green box
>> relates to this.  It has no # comments.  I have a need to comment out
>> large blocks of lines (like C's /* ... */).   Is this possible in YAML,
>> and if not, could I suggest that it be added?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Keith
>>
>>
>>
>>
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