Comments

[Carsten Gaebler]

Roy Smith wrote:
> Multi-line comments are evil
> 
> The first time you spend a half-hour trying to understand a block of
> ugly code and finally get to the end and find a "*/", you'll
> understand why they're evil.

ACK.

But multi-line strings are evil, too. At least when they occur in an 
indented block and leading whitespace is not allowed in the string 
your're building (e.g. in an HTTP request or something). That looks 
quite awful. :-)

cg.