On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 5:29 PM, ARKBAN <ark...@arkban.net> wrote:
>  I was attempting to follow in the footsteps of someone else who suggested
> replacing // with \\. You are always going to loose a character or 2, its
> just a matter of which ones do you want to loose?

> ARKBAN

> On 4/27/12 4:13 PM, Rodrigo Cano wrote:

> The whole point of even suggesting another comment marker, in my opinion,
> is freeing up other characters, using # would incur in the same sins as //

> On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 5:12 PM, Russ P. <russ.paie...@gmail.com> wrote:

>> On Apr 27, 9:52 am, ARKBAN <ark...@arkban.net> wrote:
>> > (Corrected the email address to scala-debate)

>> > >  Although you will agree that learning the line comment syntax is not
>> > >  particularly hard,

>>  Yeah, I learned it in less than three months, but then again I'm a
>> fast learner.

>> > If // were an extremely common operator I'd be much more in favor of
>> > breaking consistency. But it doesn't sound like // is going to be the
>> > next hot operator anytime soon. Honestly if you want to choose a better
>> > comment character, I'd suggest considering # for consistency with
>> > Python, Ruby, Shell scripts, etc. (Also I think on some keyboards with
>> > larger Enter keys the \ character is moved around to various places.)

>>  I'd be all for allowing # as an alternative comment marker, but
>> unfortunately I think it's already used for something else.

>> --Russ P.