[Matplotlib-devel] matplotlib limitations and design flaws

[Paul Hobson]

On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 7:09 AM, Benjamin Root <ben.v.root at gmail.com> wrote:

> If I feel the need to have a block comment, I have learned that that
> usually means:
> 1) My logic is too complicated and needs to be cleaned up or broken up
> into smaller chuncks
> 2) That the comment might be better as a docstring
>
> And if I need to temporarily "comment out" a chunk of code, triple quoting
> works great.
>

To add to that, thanks to modern text editors, languages don't need block
comments any more. Ctrl + / should comment out a chunk of text on most
editors that I've used (Save for e.g., vim).

-p
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