[Python-ideas] Multi-line comment blocks.
Stephen J. Turnbull
stephen at xemacs.org
Sat Jun 16 08:45:23 CEST 2012
Devin Jeanpierre writes:
> [T]riple-quoted strings have three purposes:
>
> - Actual string objects
> - Docstrings
Docstrings are a subset of "actual string objects," of course.
They just have a special syntax, and their primary use is "meta" (eg,
introspection).
> - Comments
And so are strings-as-comments. Strings could be used as comments in
C:
void foo ()
{
"This comment would be optimized away, most likely.";
"Not to mention compilers may bitch about lack of effect.";
return 42;
}
It's just a side effect of expression statements. You don't have to
like it, of course.
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